-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Knott wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
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James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2007-05-18 at 13:42 +0100, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
I have free space under /usr/local (separate partition). Is it possible to copy /usr/lib and /usr/lib across to /usr/local and then symlink them back on a live system without breaking it?
Er...
You should not move files somewhere under /usr to the corresponding somewhere under /usr/local; ie, not to places under "/usr/local" that the systems searchs for programs and files, because those files are probably compiled to be installed under /usr. Maybe I'm confusing you.
As long as he moves the entire directory and symlinks to the new location, what's the problem?
If moving to a new partition be careful. There are some hardlinks in the structure and I have been caught out by broken links after doing a similar move..
Where were those hard links? As I mentioned in another note, there are some directories that cannot be moved, as they're required at boot up, but I'd be suprised if anything under /usr would have problems.
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...:-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTgIEasN0sSnLmgIRAugnAJ0W9uRUGiyPFXygoPeZ08RyIJP0swCfeG5h +nndK3+oy77KnH7zhfm8l6I= =4OZV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org