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David C. Rankin said the following on 04/09/2011 04:33 PM:
I can backup regardless of how the partitions are laid out -- but I can't softlink across a partition boundary no matter how bad I "really really want to."
Are you sure you are saying what you mean? I understand not being able to HARD link across a partition boundary, but I have a *LOT*of soft links. In fact I thought the whole point of soft links was that they could go across a partition boundary. For example: # ls -l /etc/termcap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2010-07-21 22:12 /etc/termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap # df /etc /usr/share/misc Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 2205780 568688 1525044 28% / /dev/mapper/vgmain-usrshare 3145628 2354040 791588 75% /usr/share See? Actually I have symlinks from my desktop to many places on my various mounted file systems. Some users might recall having used 'thin clients' or 'roaming login' where the home directory is actually a symlink to /mnt/nft/server/<username> which is in turn mounted by the automounter or a PAM module such as "pam_csync" or "pam_mount".
From man ln(1)
... Create hard links by default, symbolic links with --symbolic. ... See also symlink(2), synlink(7), readlink, ln(1p) -- Ah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org