>I think it was something obvious. Can you add `-P' to the pwd below in >your copy and see if it passes?
Done, and yes, it did. >I suspect your /big is a symlink. :-) Close. :-) It isn't, but the level below it is. On some of my systems, rather than try to figure out how much space to allocate to /home and to locally installed software (which I put in /local to protect it from future OS upgrades), I create a single partition spanning everything not used by the OS, with individual directories for /home, /local and whatever else happens to fit there. Then I have /local -> /big/local, /home -> /big/home, etc. (Yes, I know I could just use LVM2, but even that would require some kind of guess at the initial sizing.) - Steven -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Steven Winikoff | Concordia University | "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum Montreal, QC, Canada | viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin steven.winik...@concordia.ca | sounds profound.)" | - fortune(6) -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers