Re: [cobalt-users] Symbolic link for /usr directory

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 johan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Something about the RaQ 4i that I find somewhat annoying, is the fact that the
> /usr directory isn't mounted on the /home filesystem.  I've just installed the
> Java toolkit, and the root filesystem is some 87% full (was 78% before the
> installation).
> 
> One option is to copy the /usr directory to /home/usr, and create a symbolic
> link such as /usr -> /home/usr.  Is there any reason why one should *not* do
> that?  There shouldn't be, /opt and /tmp already points to /home/opt and
> /home/tmp.
> 
> Rgrds,
> 
> Johan
> 

A symbolic link is transparent to the software. The programs don't even
know they're writing to a different directory than the one they've
requested. There's no problem at all doing what you want to do...

- shimi.