[geeks] Quickest way

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:18:27PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:19:23AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 09:24 AM, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Seriously I have 3GB on /usr and 1GB on /opt.  After adding a bunch of 
> > software I was over 50% full on /opt... now I'm down to around 
> > 9-16%.... and because /opt/sfw is now a symlink to /usr/sfw... No patch 
> > problems... solved...
> 
> A better way would have been to do something like :
> mv /opt/sfw /usr/optsfw
> ln -s /usr/optsfw /opt/sfw

Assuming /usr and /opt were on the same filesystem.  GNU mv will mvoe
directory trees across filesystems, but my recollection is Solaris mv
won't...  Correct?


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