From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 6:10:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hub-wue.franken.de (hub-wue.franken.de [193.141.110.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E453A37B718 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 06:10:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tanis@gaspode.franken.de) Received: from gaspode.core.main.franken.de ([193.141.110.4]:33028 "EHLO gaspode.franken.de" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE") by hub-wue.franken.de with ESMTP id <2744-23025>; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:10:26 +0100 Received: (from tanis@localhost) by gaspode.franken.de (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f23EA7U47549; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:10:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from tanis) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:10:07 +0100 From: German Tischler To: Maarten van Schie Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc symlink! Message-ID: <20010303151007.A47457@gaspode.franken.de> References: <022301c0a435$22338e80$0bd5fcd8@techasia.com.ph> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from anera@dds.nl on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:22:26PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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