HDD question

[Robert Meyer]

There are many differences between soft links and hard links.  The most
significant one is that hard links can only happen on the same file system. 
You cannot hardlink files across mount points.  Softlinks can link anyplace.

Cheers!

Bob
--- "Eric R. Benoit" <ebenoit at hopevale.com> wrote:
> would it matter if it was a hard or soft link ...not too sure what they 
> are, but that is why I am asking?  Same problem here, I just overfilled 
> my log files.
> 
> Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> > a symbolic link would do the trick. You could move all your /var for 
> > instance to somewhere under your /home, then create a symbolic link to 
> > it under /. Be very careful     !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > frank at mogosystems.com wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> When I partioned the 20GB hdd on my notebook, I assigned 512MB for 
> >> the swap
> >> (recommended), 13GB for /home and 5GB for /. I think that the root 
> >> partition may
> >> be full up because I can't update anything through synaptic. Is there 
> >> a way to
> >> dynamically reassign hdd space?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Frank
> >>
> >> Cybersource Rocks!
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >
> 
> 


	
		
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