Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56:06PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, FWIW 'man ln' tells:
> 
>        ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME   (1st form)
>        ln [OPTION]... TARGET                  (2nd form)
>        ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY     (3rd form)
>        ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET...  (4th form)
> 
> So there are 4 ways of invoking ln. Twice the target is the last
> argument, twice the one before the last. This just seem to indicate that
> you can pick whichever order sounds most consistent to you... 8-)

Or, just use mc  Alt-x-S I think.


I've also used mc when I need to do the filesystem shuffle.

Doug.