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01-10-2001

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When one partition is getting full and there are few options to reduce the size, the normal fix is to move directory trees to new partitions and then create a symbolic link from the new directory node to the old one.

For example, lets say that your /user directory is big because you have a lot of users and /user is in the root partition. You would copy the entire /user directory using either a recursive copy (or TAR) to another partition, for example /usr1. Depending on the actual file system, you could just move the old one (just to be safe) i.e. move /user to /user.old Then you would link /usr1/user to /user using a command like:

Code:

ln -sf /usr1/user /user

After you test it and it works OK (always test!) then you can delete/remove the original files. You can't do this if you have active processes from the filesystem (you will get a filesystem busy error) or if your shell is in the directory, BTW. Also, moving dynamic libaries and other core libaries can be done, but requires experience. Suggest you relocate user and temporary files first. It takes a lot of courage to move and relocate system binaries and libs, because one false step can result in a filesystem which must be rebuilt from a boot disk.

[Edited by Neo on 01-10-2001 at 01:06 PM]

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NAME

       Net::Server::Proto::UNIX - Net::Server UNIX protocol.

SYNOPSIS

       See Net::Server::Proto.

DESCRIPTION

       Protocol module for Net::Server.  This module implements the UNIX SOCK_STREAM socket type.  See Net::Server::Proto.

       Any sockets created during startup will be chown'ed to the user and group specified in the starup arguments.

PARAMETERS

       The following paramaters may be specified in addition to normal command line parameters for a Net::Server.  See Net::Server for more
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       unix_type
	   Can be either SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM (default is SOCK_STREAM).  This can also be passed on the port line (see Net::Server::Proto).

	   However, this method is deprecated.	If you want SOCK_STREAM - just use proto UNIX without any other arguments.  If you'd like
	   SOCK_DGRAM, use the new proto UNIXDGRAM.

METHODS

       NS_unix_path/NS_unix_type
	   In addition to the standard NS_ methods of Net::Server::Proto classes, the UNIX types also have legacy calls to NS_unix_path and
	   NS_unix_type.

	   Since version 2.000, NS_unix_path is simply an alias to NS_port.  NS_unix_type is now redundant with NS_proto.

	   These methods were missing between version 2.000 and 2.003 but have been returned as legacy bridges.

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	 # deprecated UNIX socket parameters
	 unix_type	   (SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_DGRAM) SOCK_STREAM
	 port		   "filename"		    undef

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	 port		   "filename / UNIX"
	 port		   "filename / UNIXDGRAM"

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