From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 1:13:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.wi.rr.com (fe6.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1487D37B41D for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:13:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from wi.rr.com ([65.31.97.147]) by mail6.wi.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:14:20 -0600 Message-ID: <3CA03BB8.6E181D71@wi.rr.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:13:28 -0600 From: Nick Lozinsky Reply-To: nl3481@wi.rr.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-NSCPCD (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "P.B. Ruiter" Cc: Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: /usr/home on separate disk? References: <20020326012855.O8113-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <000a01c1d49f$38e33ef0$6e01a8c0@home.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, no, no...when you are trying to link a device from /dev, you just specify the device, so do this: ln -sf /dev/ad1s1e /usr/home "P.B. Ruiter" wrote: > 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" > To: "P.B. Ruiter" > Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" > 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 > | > | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message