[SOLVED] Symlinked /opt to /home/opt for space, now I cannot install…

felix_thunderbolt · 2020-03-20 17:04:06

I need to install quartus-free for the college, it is a heavy package (over 16GB) and I do not have that much space in my / partition.

But my /home partition has approx. 200GB of free space.

Since it installs in /opt, I rm'd my /opt, created the directory /home/felix/opt and symlinked it to /opt.

Now I have space for quartus-free at /opt.

But at installing, I get the following error from pacman:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
quartus-free: /opt exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How can I suppress this error?

Last edited by felix_thunderbolt (2020-03-20 17:15:50)

Scimmia · 2020-03-20 17:05:23

You want mounts or bind mounts, don't replace pacman-managed dirs with symlinks.

felix_thunderbolt · 2020-03-20 17:07:44

Scimmia wrote:

You want mounts or bind mounts, don't replace pacman-managed dirs with symlinks.

How can I bind mount /home/opt to /opt?
Isn't binding a plan9 thing?

WorMzy · 2020-03-20 17:09:39

See http://allanmcrae.com/2014/12/pacman-4-2-released (section titled "Directory Symlink Handling").

Also, 'man mount | less -p Bind'

Last edited by WorMzy (2020-03-20 17:10:55)

Scimmia · 2020-03-20 17:10:02

You read the mount man page. Don't forget to add it to fstab.

felix_thunderbolt · 2020-03-20 17:12:55

I did

mount --bind /home/felix/opt /opt

And worked.
Now I just have to put it in /fstab.

Thanks for the replies.

Last edited by felix_thunderbolt (2020-03-20 17:15:26)

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