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2010-03-05
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file permissions are blown away after that.
or are you referring to /home/ ?
or /home/user/MyDocs/ ?
or are you referring to /home/ ?
or /home/user/MyDocs/ ?
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2010-03-05
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The reason they don't do this by default is, apparently, speed. See this thread.
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2010-03-05
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Wherever is best really, but using symbolic links wouldn't it be possible to create a lot more free space?
If speed has something to do with it... what kind of differences would we be looking at?
If speed has something to do with it... what kind of differences would we be looking at?
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2010-03-05
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There's a couple of issues - firstly (and most importantly) a lot of files in /usr are accessed before the other filesystems are mounted, so you won't be able to boot after moving the files. Secondly, as said, there's performance impacts - that's unlikely to be significant for just reading files, but some operations were benchmarked at something like 30x slower.
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2010-03-05
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Ah, I didn't know about which folders are accessed before others, that's quite a big downside lol.
I guess though a lot of folders/files could be symlinked making a lot more room without too much impact, guess its just finding out which ones.
I guess though a lot of folders/files could be symlinked making a lot more room without too much impact, guess its just finding out which ones.
I was thinking about symbolic links and space on the rootfs, would it be possible to move the entire /usr/ folder in to the 32gb mass memory and then use a symbolic link back to /usr/ ? If so,
What would be the up and downsides of this?
If it can't, how come?
Kev