Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation

From: Dmitry Morozovsky (marck_at_rinet.ru)
Date: 01/24/04

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To: Andriy Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>

    On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Andriy Tkachuk wrote:

    AT> The idea is this: if you mount your / to another
    AT> place (for example /mnt on another computer), your
    AT> /mnt/home will point to correct place (/mnt/usr/home)
    AT> instead of /usr/home.
    AT>
    AT> What do you, falks, think about this?

    FWIW, I'm making virtually every symlink relative instead of absolute for just
    this reason. (To be exact, more similar to Solaris' approach, so
    /sys -> ./usr/src/sys and /home -> ./usr/home)

    Sincerely,
    D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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