Subject: Re: Partitioning question
To: Rodney Hopkins <rhopkins@sunflower.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/01/1998 00:30:37
Rodney Hopkins wrote:
> OK, here's a good newbie question for you.
>
> I currently have a 1.2GB Quantum drive in a Mac SE/30 partitioned as 150M
> MacOS, 150M Root, 100M Swap, 105M /var and 800M /usr.
>
> What I would like to do is have both /usr and /home on the same 800M
> partition. Is this possible, and if so, how?
create a new mount point, say /u
mount the 800M partition on /u
create subdirs on the 800M partition: /u/home, /u/usr
create symbolic links in your root directory:
/usr -> /u/usr
/home -> /u/home
that should do more or less what you want. does that make sense?
i hope this helps.
later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD Intel Corporation
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