Re: Bug#161978: general: /usr/share as a symlink breaks EVERYTHING, but only sometimes
"Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald" <debian@crackerjack.net> writes:
> Nobody ever told me that I couldn't have /usr/share as a symlink. And sure
> enough, my /usr partition ran out of space and I had plenty free on /var. So
> what did (possibly stupid) me do? I moved /usr/share to /var/usr:share and
> symlinked it up in /usr. Everything was working great for a few weeks. Then
> one day, *some* package (probably a core one, but I have no idea what)
> REMOVED my symlink and replaced it with a new directory entry. Of course,
> that caused perl to break, which, in turn, caused everything else to fall
> apart. :-( Is it possible for the debian system to be a bit more
> symlink-friendly?
If using a 2.4 Linux kernel, you could have used a bind mount to avoid
any problems.
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