From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 0:21:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wellington.cnchost.com (wellington.concentric.net [207.155.252.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637D237B400 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:21:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from 600E (ool-18bc1077.dyn.optonline.net [24.188.16.119]) by wellington.cnchost.com id DAA15882; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:21:34 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <000a01c1d49f$38e33ef0$6e01a8c0@home.net> From: "P.B. Ruiter" To: "Peter Leftwich" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20020326012855.O8113-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Subject: Re: /usr/home on separate disk? Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:21:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 I tried ln -sf /dev/ad1s1e/usr/home /dev/ad0s1g/usr/home which is an Operation Not Supported. How can I distinguish /usr/home on ad1 from /usr/home on ad0? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Leftwich" To: "P.B. Ruiter" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:30 AM Subject: Re: /usr/home on separate disk? | On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, P.B. Ruiter wrote: | > Hi, I just installed a new freebsd box with two ide drives. As I intend to use this as dedicated file/print/samba server on a mixed small office network, I thought it a good idea to dedicate one drive to /usr/home. I installed 4.5-Release as such with default settings for drive 0 and a single slice /usr/home on drive 1 (and swap on both). | > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on | > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 31748 86924 27% / | > /dev/ad0s1f 257998 4 237356 0% /tmp | > /dev/ad0s1g 9044900 786382 7534926 9% /usr | > /dev/ad1s1e 19099614 20 17571626 0% /usr/home | > /dev/ad0s1e 257998 738 236622 0% /var | > I realize there is already a /usr/home under /usr. How do I get rid of this and point it to my /usr/home on ad1s1e? I tried rmdir /home within /usr - this only gave me a busy reply. Please help... | > Pieter | | Assuming both drives are mounted okay, and I don't know much about Samba - | especially if it "honors" or "comprehends" symbolic links, but you could | always do something like `ln -sf /dev/ad1s1e /dev/....` etc. | | man ln | | Hope this helps in no small way ;-) | | -- | Peter Leftwich | President & Founder | Video2Video Services | Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA | +1-413-403-9555 | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message