Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:14:44PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:02:02 -0500
> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >
> > So the effect of ln is the same as cp, except that no copy is made.
>
> Not really. If you make a link (soft or hard) you get one file/dir with
> two names and/or locations. Any changes made through the link will be in
> fact done to the file/dir itself. If you change one copy of a file/dir
> the other copy will not change and the space occupied is (almost)
> double.
Exactly -- no copy is made. I made the analogy to provide a mnemonic
for those with difficulty remembering which of ln's arguments is which.
(I think this analogy was the motivation for the design of ln in the
first place; I'll not claim credit for the analogy)
-- hendrik
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