From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 9:54:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7289537B417 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.76.141]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020322175414.HKNA7000.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:54:14 +0000 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2MHsDM77217; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:54:13 GMT (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:54:13 +0000 From: George Reid To: Martyn Hill Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Is there anything wrong with softlinking /var to a pratition with more space Message-ID: <20020322175413.A77155@FreeBSD.org> References: <002101c1d1c5$5cb4cd80$0a00000a@stjames.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <002101c1d1c5$5cb4cd80$0a00000a@stjames.net>; from m.hill@st-james-snrgirls.w-london.sch.uk on Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:16:52PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:16:52PM -0000, Martyn Hill wrote: [ Please wrap lines properly ] > Can I expect problems as a result of my somewhat dirty solution? Seems > OK for now... There shouldn't be any problems with this. You may get a warning from the mtree phase of installworld (something to the effect of "found symlink, expecting directory") but otherwise you should be fine. As an aside, I thought RM PLC had hijacked all of the software in most schools these days. Glad to see that isn't the case everywhere. -- George C A Reid Tel: (08701) 200870 Ext. 26654 WWW: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~greid/ Mob: (07740) 197460 FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message