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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Ran out of space on /dev/root partition Post 302079049 by Hitori on Thursday 6th of July 2006 02:03:29 PM
Old 07-06-2006
You can use soft links, e.g. mkdir usr on /dev/u, move content of /usr to the created directory then ls -s path_to_dev_u_usr /usr

NO GUARANTEE, just idea
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gvfs-mkdir(1)							   User Commands						     gvfs-mkdir(1)

NAME
gvfs-mkdir - make a directory using the VFS system SYNOPSIS
gvfs-mkdir URI DESCRIPTION
gvfs-mkdir makes a directory specified by an URI using the VFS system. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Create a local directory example% gvfs-mkdir file:///tmp/example Example 2: Create a remote directory example% gvfs-mkdir ftp://example.com/dir ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gvfs-mkdir Executable to make a directory using the VFS system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-gvfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-cat(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1), gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-move(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5) NOTES
Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008. SunOS 5.11 25 Mar 2008 gvfs-mkdir(1)
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