From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 20:13:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F4837B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.southeast.rr.com (smtp3.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB6C43E3B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8 [24.93.67.55]) by smtp3.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6Q3DUga025631; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:13:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:13:34 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 4FC25BA12; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:13:29 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: karl agee , Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: Linking a directory to another filesystem Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:13:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: freebsd-questions References: <200207252250.g6PMorT15954@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1027652619.499.6.camel@enterprise.workgroup> In-Reply-To: <1027652619.499.6.camel@enterprise.workgroup> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207252313.28903.bts@babbleon.org> 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 Thursday 25 July 2002 11:03 pm, karl agee wrote: | On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 15:50, Jerry McAllister wrote: | I'm confused. | | Not by what you did but what I am trying to do. ;-) | | My /usr directory is on my / partition (linux lingo). But I want to | move it to my /usr partition (linux lingo again) where I have gobs of | space and only a little is being used. That's FreeBSD logo, too. The quirky thing about FreeBSD is that all of it's "partitions" are *within* Windows partitions, which FreeBSD calls "slices." | I thought setting up the separate filesystems (partitions in linux | lingo) would put the directories there but huh. It does. Something when wrong in the install, or with whatever process you used to create them. It is completely impossible to have a /usr partition but to also have /usr files taking up space in the / partition. Now, if /usr isn't acutally *mounted* then /usr will be used as a directory rather than a mountpoint, but if you selected it as a partition at install time it should be automatically mounted. This is all exactly the same as Linux or any other Unix-like operating system. | make sense? No . . . | Guess I dont know how I would make sure I move /usr | directory to the /usr filesystem (and properly soft link it)and not just | make a new /usr directory on the /usr directory on the / filesystem... | %-) You don't know how to do it because it's impossible; worse, the premise is impossible. /usr is /usr, and it's *either* a partition (that is, to say, a mount point) *or* an ordinary directory. The funny thing is, until you actually mount something on a mount point it *is* an ordinary directory. | -karl who throughly confusted himself Us, too. At this point, I strongly suggest that you follow up to this with - The output from the "df" command, and - The contents of your /etc/fstab file. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message