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Re: expand /var, decrease /home space



Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> 
> Yeah "source" and "destination" get a but confused when you are talking about 
> creating a symlink.  But, you should think of "ln" as a special form of "cp" 
> (which it is), then consider "-s" just an option that doesn't change the 
> order of arguments (which it is), and you should get the order right.
> 
> For mv, cp, ln, et. al the path to put the result is determined by the last 
> argument.  It's consistent because it's UNIX.

thanks for the tip!




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