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thetrivialstuff

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 191

Warning about /home as a symlink

It seems some packages will delete your symlink if they have stuff to go into /home -- apache just did this to me.

Safer is to use mount -o bind (in fstab of course) if you want your /home somewhere else (mine is /var/home for this particular machine).

~Felix.

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Warning about /home as a symlink

file a bug, that shouldnt happen.

http://bugs.archlinux.org

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: Warning about /home as a symlink

This is a known pacman issue; it overwrites all symlinks. (also symlinks created by pther packages are affected)

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