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Re: expand /var, decrease /home space



steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> ok, well I wanted to avoid that if all possible anyway, tried this ln -s
> /var/www/download /home/steve/public_html [...]

> thats creating a symbolic link from download directory (which has
> no space left) to a directory that has 280 gig free in it.

No. That has created a link to /var/www/download in
/home/steve/public_html. ("ln -s" is counter intuitive, IMO. The arguments
always seem to need to be the other way round.)


> did I do something incorrectly?

You forgot to ls -l /var/www/download to confirm the link was correctly
created. (You'd have seen it wasn't.)

Chris


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