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

Jamie Kahn Genet jamiekg at wizardling.geek.nz
Thu Apr 14 10:41:41 PDT 2005


John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:

> Sometime in April Jamie Kahn Genet assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | You're telling me I can mount a drive to act as a directory? If so, I'm
> | extremely interested.
> 
> That's pretty much what happens when you stick a memory stick into your mac
> and a directory "appears" in /Volumes. Open up a terminal and type 'df'.
[snip]
> I don't know the mac way of doing all of these things. You can use diskutil
> to create the partition. You can probably use diskutil to do all of these
> things actually. Perhaps someone can help out with the specifics.

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?

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
-- 
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