Mike, I have used this technique on a few Solaris systems when the original partitioning proved to be inadequately sized and there were no other simple options available. The only issue I can think of that might be a problem is symbolic links within the moved directory structure which "could" end up not pointing to the right thing. The type of problem I am thinking of can be seen if you use a standard Bourne shell (NOT ksh or bash, for sure). A symlink to a directory can be cd'd to, but a pwd command will show the actual path to the current directory, not the symlink path, which can be confusing to users. It could also be confusing to programs accessing a symlink of the relative type ( --> ../something ) since the thing pointed to could be in the original location (I don't know how clear this is...;-)
$ ln -s /tmp /usr/tmp/somethingnew $ cd /usr/tmp/somethingnew $ pwd /tmp #ksh and bash would show /usr/tmp/somethingnew I have not tried this sort of thing myself on Linux nor have I tested the relative path issue in any environment. So the bottom line is that some symlink things may break but in general the procedure will work. As to "appropriate" things, nothing other than trying to avoid directory structures with lots of symlinks comes to mind. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 2:22 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: freeing space on /usr? > > > I'd like to make a little more room on my /usr partition. Is it > safe to move /usr/doc to somewhere else and make a symbolic link > back? Is there something more appropriate that can be moved to > make space? > > Mike > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >