From: German Tischler <tanis@gaspode.franken.de> To: Maarten van Schie <anera@dds.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc symlink! Message-ID: <20010303151007.A47457@gaspode.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0103031419560.27161-100000@vectra.dna.dataloss.net>; from anera@dds.nl on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:22:26PM %2B0100 References: <022301c0a435$22338e80$0bd5fcd8@techasia.com.ph> <Pine.BSO.4.33.0103031419560.27161-100000@vectra.dna.dataloss.net>
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On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:22:26PM +0100, Maarten van Schie wrote: > Why would you want to do such a thing? > My /etc takes 1100KBytes of diskspace, that's just over 1 megabyte... > > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Power JeSsIe! wrote: > > is it just ok to make a symbolic link of the directory /etc? > > ln -s /usr/etc /etc/ > > will this affect anything? etc can definitely not be a symlink to something that is not on the root partition, because it contains rc. Of course it is possible to move parts of it to different places, for example my /etc is 2.8m of which 1.6m are /etc/X11. --gt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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