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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:36:13 +0000
From: Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>
To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
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Subject: Re: Root File System Full
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:30:14AM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> Stuart Henderson wrote to Ryan Thompson:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:52:46AM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> > > Stuart Henderson wrote to Rick Morel:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:22:36AM -0600, Rick Morel wrote:
> > > > > Many thanks to Phil Allsopp <phil@virtek.com> and wellsian
> > > > > <wellsian@caffeine.com> for super rapid replies.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I forgot that /etc is really  under /.
> > > > 
> > > > You might consider moving and symlinking it to a
> > > > different partition. From someone that learned the
> > > > hard way some time ago, you probably don't want to
> > > > do that :-)
> > > 
> > > /etc to a different partition?  That won't work without lots of help.
> > 
> > exactly the point I was making - someone in a panic for
> > disk space might not think of it and do something baaaaadddd :-)
> > 
> 
> Ahh... Then I DID misunderstand the point you were trying to make; I
> thought I might have.  I decided, though, that if I couldn't make perfect
> sense out of what you said, some others probably wouldn't, as well.  

I'm like that sometimes...usually when I'm tired :)

Best wishes
Stuart


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