On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:27 +0200, Hans Meine wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 05. September 2007 14:22:35 schrieb Darren Freeman: > > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:18 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > I am taker for any hints. > > > > Here is a quick and lazy solution to get things going again: > > > > mv /var/foo /home/foo > > ln -s /home/foo /var > > Uuh, first use "lsof" to check that no files (e.g. logfiles) below /var/foo > are still opened by a running process (e.g. syslog daemon). That'd make for > ugly surprises... ;-/
Hmm.. I guess common sense is required :) /var/lib would be pretty safe, no? Using cp -a followed by ln -s followed by "mv && mv" to pretend to atomically replace the dir with the link. Then check if anybody is still reading anything from that dir before finally removing it. Have fun, Darren
