Re: /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc on different partitions
The problem are not the cross-device links. The problem is to
move some directory to somewhere else and replace it by a symlink. If there
are symlinks within that moved tree pointing relative to some location
outside, these will be wrong after the move.
If you really need to cut the /usr tree somewhere in the middle, the only
option that is sure to work, is to have the original mount point right there
within /usr. May be ugly, or at least unusual, but it should work well.
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:02:09PM -0400, Mr. Christopher F. Miller wrote:
>
> The error is cross-device links not allowed.
>
> I have the same problem too. We mount /usr/doc ro NFS
> on one particular machine.
>
> Anytime we install apt-conf unmounts /usr/doc, does its thing,
> blows away the contents of the local /usr/doc, and
> remounts. Similar for /usr/man and /usr/info. And,
> presumably, /usr/share once I have a moment to check the
> architecture thing.
>
> cfm
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Bjoern Brill wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > >
> > > : On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jon K. Hellan wrote:
> > > :
> > > : > Hi,
> > > : >
> > > : > As my /usr has grown, /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc has ended up in
> > > : > different partitions. Symlinks from /usr/doc to ../share/doc or vice
> > > : > versa do not work.
> > > : >
> > > : > Should this be considered a bug in the packages, or am I doing
> > > : > something which is not supported.
> > > :
> > > : I think you are doing something which is not supported.
> > > :
> > > : If you mount a filesystem under /usr/share/doc everything should
> > > : work just fine. If you have strange symlinks maybe not.
> > >
> > > /usr/share on a separate partition from /usr isn't supported?
> > >
> > I wonder all the time what exactly could be meant by 'do not work'
> > (but I have already deleted the original message, so I can't ask the
> > author). Without this and a copy of fstab and what symlinks already
> > exist in the filesystem (ie is /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc already a
> > symlink to some place) it is very hard to guess what really could go
> > wrong at all (except something unsupported:).
> >
> >
> > Bj"orn Brill <brill@fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de>
> > Frankfurt am Main, Germany
> >
> >
> >
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