Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:13:28 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: karl agee <kdagee@attglobal.net>, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linking a directory to another filesystem Message-ID: <200207252313.28903.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <1027652619.499.6.camel@enterprise.workgroup> References: <200207252250.g6PMorT15954@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1027652619.499.6.camel@enterprise.workgroup>
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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.
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