Bad choices for symlinks!
Brain in Neutral
bin%pernod at primate.wisc.edu
Tue Jan 31 06:14:02 AEST 1989
Reply-to: bin%pernod at primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
I recently had occasion to repartition an RD54 on a VAXstation 2000 running
Ultrix 2.2. I'm glad I checked to see what was symbolically linked.
This machine uses a tape drive remotely on another machine (no local tape).
I was splitting /usr into two smaller partitions (/usr + /news) so that
I wouldn't have to include all the news junk in the /usr backups. Lo
and behold, /etc/rrestore and /etc/rdump are symbolic links into
the directory ../usr/etc...
If I'd blithely gone ahead and newfs'd /usr, I wouldn't be able to
restore it, because rrestore is on that partition! A nice situation.
One had best be careful to make copies of stuff like this on the root
partition, just in case disk reconfiguration tools get blasted in
non-obvious ways.
Paul DuBois
bin at primate.wisc.edu
dubois at primate.wisc.edu
[ Rdump & rrestore have been moved from /usr/etc to /bin in ULTRIX v3.0.
-- Art Z. ]
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