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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:21:24 -0500
From:      "P.B. Ruiter" <pruiter@indigored.com>
To:        "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/home on separate disk?
Message-ID:  <000a01c1d49f$38e33ef0$6e01a8c0@home.net>
References:  <20020326012855.O8113-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>

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I tried

ln -sf /dev/ad1s1e/usr/home /dev/ad0s1g/usr/home

which is an Operation Not Supported. How can I distinguish /usr/home on ad1
from /usr/home on ad0?






----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To: "P.B. Ruiter" <pruiter@indigored.com>
Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: /usr/home on separate disk?


| On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, P.B. Ruiter wrote:
| > Hi, I just installed a new freebsd box with two ide drives. As I intend
to use this as dedicated file/print/samba server on a mixed small office
network, I thought it a good idea to dedicate one drive to /usr/home. I
installed 4.5-Release as such with default settings for drive 0 and a single
slice /usr/home on drive 1 (and swap on both).
| > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
| > /dev/ad0s1a    128990    31748    86924    27%    /
| > /dev/ad0s1f    257998        4   237356     0%    /tmp
| > /dev/ad0s1g   9044900   786382  7534926     9%    /usr
| > /dev/ad1s1e  19099614       20 17571626     0%    /usr/home
| > /dev/ad0s1e    257998      738   236622     0%    /var
| > I realize there is already a /usr/home under /usr. How do I get rid of
this and point it to my /usr/home on ad1s1e? I tried rmdir /home within
/usr - this only gave me a busy reply. Please help...
| > Pieter
|
| Assuming both drives are mounted okay, and I don't know much about Samba -
| especially if it "honors" or "comprehends" symbolic links, but you could
| always do something like `ln -sf /dev/ad1s1e /dev/....` etc.
|
| man ln
|
| Hope this helps in no small way ;-)
|
| --
| Peter Leftwich
| President & Founder
| Video2Video Services
| Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
| +1-413-403-9555
|
|


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