>I picked /opt because the installation of IBM?s HTTP >server, Websphere and some other products are consuming >a major portion of the file system.
You should be able to move just the IBM stuff to another volume, then put a link in /opt. 1. mount a device as /mnt/vendor 2. copy the IBM directories to /mnt/vendor 3. "rename" the directories in /opt, i.e., mkdir save, "mv IBMDIR save" 4. in /opt, link to the directories. 5. delete the /opt/save stuff when you are comfortable with the move. For example, for DB2, there is a /opt/IBM directory. Move the /opt/IBM directory to /mnt/vendor. Then, in opt, ln -s /mnt/vendor/IBM IBM Then you can refresh or rebuild your respack with having to reinstall all the IBM stuff. Some of the vendors have heard the message that people might want to install their stuff in directories the distributions don't write over. Maybe someday, they all will. (This does not imply a warranty on any vendors part that this technique will always work, just a fervent hope that they will get the message if they haven't already). ===== Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
