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Subject: Re: linking a dir
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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:51 am, Gary wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> It seems that on a remote box FBSD 4.8, my /dev/ad0s1a or / dir is at 73%
> capacity already, and this has me somewhat worried.  I attribute this to
> the /etc dir inside of the / dir, as it contains many log files, etc... or
> perhaps the 2 kernels sitting under /  both kernel and kernel.GENERIC
>
> Question is can I cp /etc to say a /usr/etc and link it (as I have tons of
> room under /usr) without any problem.
>
> Thanks for input..

I don't think you should do this.  In single-user mode, I don't think /usr 
would be mounted; so the system wouln't have access to /usr/etc until you 
mounted /usr manually.

Andrew Gould