On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 20:08, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:32:58 -0500, you wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> I have about 60 mb on /usr. A software installing session could use > >> that in nothing flat. I have plenty of room on /mnt, but I have to > >> install by hand to get anything there. Then X doesn't know > > > >Symlinks are your friend. > > My simple comment that it is difficult to make use of extra hard > drives with apt has generated a lot more response than I would > have expected, from suggestions about how to work around the > difficulty to defenses of apt and the reasons why it is the way it > is. Do I understand that you want apt to detect when space is short on the target device, and automatically generate symlinked mount points on available devices with sufficient space? If you've got such devices within the system, LVM makes more sense. Pegards Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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