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[rtl] Re: [realtime] directory structure !

On Die, 21 Dez 1999 phil wilshire wrote:

>My /usr/src fills up too easily.
>I mount a large disk on /opt and use /opt/rtl as a base.

Well, you can then simply make /usr/src/realtime a link to /opt/rtl :-)
I actually don't have an /opt on any of my machines - still using
/usr/local/ for that purpose :-)

>I then relink /usr/src/linux to the kernel I am using.

That is what I am doing as well, simply pointing to a different place :-)

>This means that I can use a 2G partition for all the variants I am
>testing.
>Even that gets full ...

Well, that's life. I just had an run-over on my personal 36 GB partition
:-)

>need to
>keep in mind disk space while not disturbing a "normal" partitioning
>scheme.

Absolutely. But then I want to make the logic partition scheme - and as
Stuart keeps pointing out, we have to use symbolic links wherever
feasible. And he is right, to my mind.

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