bin%pernod@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (01/31/89)
Reply-to: bin%pernod@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@primate.wisc.edu dubois@primate.wisc.edu [ Rdump & rrestore have been moved from /usr/etc to /bin in ULTRIX v3.0. -- Art Z. ]