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

John Harrold jmh17 at pitt.edu
Thu Apr 14 12:16:52 PDT 2005


Sometime in April Jamie Kahn Genet assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:
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| The trouble isn't creating new partitions. I'm stuck with an 8GiB limit
| on my boot drive due to OS X's limitations on old G3s. I have to move
| the 'sw' directory using some sort of link. Is this doable?

What I'm saying here is that you can use a different partition, other than
your boot partition, and mount it at /sw and use all the space that
different partition has. The narrative I provided started with creating a
new partition because, well, I had to start somewhere. 

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