[X-Unix] Buggy Fink, sym & hard links.

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:
> Sometime in April Jamie Kahn Genet assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | Also - here's an idea, and I'm a bit new to Unix so bear with any
> | possible stupidity here - but what if I move the 'sw" folder and put a
> | _hard_ link to the boot drive? If I understand correctly the OS treats a
> | hard link as if it's there anyway. So would this fool the buggy software
> | into thinking the 'sw' folder is where it wants it, while allowing me to
> | have the space taken up on another drive?
> 
> Bear with me here, I'm new to macs, but I don't think you can make hard
> links across different partitions. HFS+ might make this possible with the
> resource forks and stuff.
> 
> | What, if anything will work here, please? I simply can't live within the
> | restrictively small boot disk. Once I'm running a few programs it gets
> | filled up by VM.
> 
> If you have the extra space, you could create a partition and mount it at
> /sw. 

You're telling me I can mount a drive to act as a directory? If so, I'm
extremely interested.

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
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