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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2007-05-18 at 20:44 +0100, G T Smith wrote:

> The hardlinks were to libraries in /usr/lib from somewhere else or vice
> versa I cannot remember precisely which.. Took out OpenOffice which was
> an unpleasant surprise at the time... I cannot remember precisely which
> libraries were involved but as usual for these things I discovered the
> problem when I needed to use OpenOffice in a hurry. It only took 10 to
> 15 minutes to diagnose and fix but it was a bloody nuisance at the time.
> I not entirely certain whether there are not any other broken links
> created by this move, but I will probably find out the hard way *sigh*
> 
> Next time I do this I will make sure that I check for such linkages
> before I move structures to new partitions...:-)


Mmmm... The "/usr" directory is a typical one to have on a separate 
partition, and in that case there can't be hardlinks from outside. If some 
programs requires hardlinks, it is a bug.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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