Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-12 Thread James Mastros
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:11:34PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > Hello James, > > Umm, perhaps I'm missing somthing, but I once had to do a similar thing. I > > simply mounted the new partition in /hdd2, and created symlinks > > /home->/hdd2/home, /usr/local->/hdd2/usr/local. Nested symlinks

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-12 Thread Ruben Leote Mendes
Hello James, > Umm, perhaps I'm missing somthing, but I once had to do a similar thing. I > simply mounted the new partition in /hdd2, and created symlinks > /home->/hdd2/home, /usr/local->/hdd2/usr/local. Nested symlinks are > perfectly legal. (Indeed, when the kernel went to dcache, there wer

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-12 Thread Ruben Leote Mendes
Hello Gary, On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 12:57:03PM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: > Take a look at the "symlinks" package first - I forget > it's capabilities but it just might do this for you. > IIRC it's in utils. When I saw the description in the .deb file I thought it was exactly what I was lookin

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Ruben Leote Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Adam, > > On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein > wrote: > > > Why don't you just mount the parition under > /usr/local? > > The main reason is because I want to put several > directories in the > same partition. I create

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-08 Thread James Mastros
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 05:42:38PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: > > Why don't you just mount the parition under /usr/local? > The main reason is because I want to put several directories in the > same partition. I create several dir

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-08 Thread Ruben Leote Mendes
Hello Adam, On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: > Why don't you just mount the parition under /usr/local? The main reason is because I want to put several directories in the same partition. I create several directories in the partition and then make symbolic links there.

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-06 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:05:55PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > Hello, > > My /usr/local directory is mounted in /mnt/local. > If I cd to /usr/local and type "ls .." it lists the contents of /mnt > and not of /usr as I would expect. Is this the normal behaviour? > All relative symbolic links