[Tfug] A symlinks question, I think?

[Jim March]

DAMMIT, just figured it out.  Christ, I need a directory with
permissions set at /var/www don't I?  Ghaaa.  Rebooting...

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Jim March<1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Can anybody give me functional symlink syntax to take data
>>>> now going
>>>> to /var/www/events and re-point it to /media/disk/events -
>>>> noting that
>>>> both are directories, not files?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why not just mount the "events" file system at /var/www/events
>>> (assuming you're not overlaying anything *in* that "directory")
>>>
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I like this suggestion better than mine.
>
> OK.  Well I just did something similar:
>
> Zoneminder had a bunch of stuff at /var/www including the THREE
> directories I have to worry about:
>
> /var/www/events
> /var/www/images
> /var/www/sounds
>
> ...plus a bunch of other crap at /var/www
>
> So I moved everything at /var/www out to the ReiserFS partition,
> deleted everything at /var/www including the directory, altered fstab
> and just rebooted.  So let's see...crap.  That didn't work.  Sigh.
> There's now no /var/www at all, when that ought to point to the top of
> the ReiserFS drive.
>
> My fstab line for the drive is now:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /var/www reiserfs auto,user,exec,rw 0 2
>
> When it worked fine as:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /media/disk reiserfs auto,user,exec,rw 0 2
>
> Why won't it mount at the new mount-point?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>