What happened to /home?

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:33:20 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> That's your problem right there.  /home does not point to the absolute
> path of '/usr/home' but to a *relative* path starting at whatever
> happens to be your current directory when you access '/home'.
> 
> Try replacing your current /home symlink with a link to /usr/home
> instead:
> 
>     # cd /
>     # rm -f home
>     # ln -s /usr/home home
> 
> Then the symlink should start working in a more useful manner.

That's quite strange... I have /home@ -> export/home and /export
lives on another partition. But I have no problems accessing
files as /home/poly/some/dir/some/file from wherever I am.
As far as I understood, relative symlinks prefix their respective
targets always with their own location, so /home + export/home
gives /export/home.


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