Re: Linking a directory

[Aaron Cronkright <aaron@cronkright.com>]

Thanks for the info.

my ln -ds /home/usrdir /usr/ftp/usrdir command worked fine.  I needed the 
30second solution since I only had 15seconds to do it.

Steve:  I *knew* you would mention LVM and I wish I had time to impliment it.  
You are right, it is the future answer for this problem.

Mike808:  cp /home/usrdir/* /usr/ftp/usrdir worked for all files with 
extensions.  Pretty much all files in this directory are winders files 
(.xls .txt .zip) and they are all there in the new directory.

The customer using this directory uses WS_FTP to send us the files and the 
symlink works fine when logged in using ws_ftp.

I know, this is more of a "duct tape" solution than actually implimentating 
something more conventional but to be honest, I really don't care about the 
filesystem integrity of this server.  Management here has given me so 
many "primary" tasks that when a network/server/computer problem arises, I 
don't have time to do it right.  If I don't do it at all, they will just hire 
a "consultant" that will only use a *longer* piece of duct tape.  When the duct 
tape comes loose, I will only state that I didn't have time to weld it.

DUCT TAPE RULES!!!!!

Tighe:  No, you are not on crack today.  He did say ls -s instead of ln -s.  I 
didn't see it until I typed it in a few times :P You got some I can bum off of 
you?

Thanks,
Aaron Cronkright
aaron@cronkright.com


Quoting Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:57:24AM -0600, Aaron Cronkright wrote:
> > my /home partition is 96% full.  However my /usr partition has plenty
> > of space to spare. What I have done is created a directory under /usr
> > and copied all of the contents of the customer's home directory to it.
> > Example: cp -R /home/userdir/* /usr/ftp/userdir/
> > 
> > Now, my challenge is trying to provide a link in the /home directory
> > to the new directory such as: ln -d /usr/ftp/userdir/ /home/userdir so
> > I don't have to configure 30+ workstations on the LAN to point at a
> > new share.
> 
> Just "ls -s /usr/ftp/userdir /home/userdir" would work, but I have a
> better idea.  Assuming the box in question is running a 2.4.x kernel,
> you can use "mount --bind /usr/ftp/userdir /home/userdir".  Then there
> is no symlink.  Add the following to /etc/fstab so it works on boot:
> 
>     /home/userdir    /usr/ftp/userdir    none    bind    0 0
> 
> Of course, the *real* answer for the future is to use LVM so that you
> can just use e2fsadm to shrink /usr and grow /home.  (Since they are
> adjacent partitions, you could do it now without LVM, but it is
> *really* painful.)
> 
> One other thought...  You'd get a little bit of space back if you
> unmounted /home and did "tune2fs -r 0 /dev/sda3" to set the reserved
> block count to 0 on that filesystem.
> 
> Steve
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