Resizing disk labels

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:39:33PM -0500, Jerry McAllister typed:
> > > 
> > > At 07:42 AM 11/25/2003, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> > > 
> > > >3) Try to identify subdirectories containing a lot of data within the
> > > >    filesystem which is too small, move them by mv to a filesystem with
> > > >    enough free space and symlink them back (ln -s) to the old location.
> > > >    But do not move the whole /etc directory from the root to another
> > > >    filesystem!
> > > 
> > > Newbie question here. Is the reason you don't suggest mv then ln -s for 
> > > /etc because it is accessed very frequently so it would incur the most 
> > > overhead to make this choice?
> > 
> > No.   It is because it is necessary to have /etc stuff there
> > in times such as single user when only the root (/) filesystem
> > is/can be mounted.  So, if it was stuck somewhere else it would
> > be a problem.
>  
> Worse, the system won't even boot multiuser without /etc in the
> root partition. /etc/rc is run when / is all there is. /etc/fstab
> is read in order to see what other filesystems are to be mounted.
> BOOM!
> Ruben

That too.
It just seemed such an obvious no-no that it has never occurred
to me to even try it to see what collapses.

////jerry

> 
> > ////jerry
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