🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <m2ra8se0lj.fsf@reddwarf.aup.com.au>,
Manfred Bartz  <mbartz@werple.net.au> wrote:
[snip]
>The ``/usr'' branch often is by far the biggest directory branch.  
>If you want to install X11 (which is *big*), that will go there too.
>
>So maybe you want to create a directory ``X11R6'' on another
>partition.  Lets assume your other partition is ``/dev/hda2'' and you
>are mounting it under ``/hda2''.  Refer to your ``/etc/fstab'', also
>do a ``man fstab''.
>    cd /hda2
>    mkdir X11R6
>
>Then you create a symbolic link to it:
>    cd /usr
>    ln -s /hda2/X11R6 X11R6
>
>Check it with
>    ls -l X*
>
>As long as the partition is mounted, it will now appear as an integral
>part of your root file system.  Install X11 as normal.

Que?  Why not just mount the partition directly under usr?  This sort
of setup works fine:

    ...
    /dev/hda1  /           ext2  defaults 1 1
    /dev/hda2  /usr        ext2  defaults 1 2
    /dev/hda3  /usr/X11R6  ext2  defaults 1 2
    /dev/hda4  /usr/local  ext2  defaults 1 2
    ...

Sure you can't mount /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local if /usr doesn't mount,
but if that is the case you probably have a little more to worry about
than not being able to run X :-)

Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
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