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[G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Probably not, I do remember that the directories concerned were
originally on the same partition, ln by default creates hardlinks.
Shuffling key system directories around different partitions is not
really a normal activity and one cannot really expect those who setup
configurations to take account every slightly loopy activity of the user
community ;-)


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