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mnt/home symlink
Posted: Tue 19 Apr 2011, 10:41
by dam973
I would like to know if there was a way to configure mnt/home to accept symlinks. I would like to extract libreoffice the deb way but i cant because the installer exits saying it wanted to create a symlink but cant ... there is no pet available and i dont wanna install it in the pupsave ( not enough space ) Why cant i create a symlink in mnt/home?? Thanks.
Posted: Tue 19 Apr 2011, 10:42
by rcrsn51
In what file system is your /mnt/home partition formatted? NTFS? FAT32? ext?
Posted: Tue 19 Apr 2011, 10:47
by dam973
its fat , i installed puppy using the universal installer, i'm on a live usb
Posted: Tue 19 Apr 2011, 10:48
by Béèm
Probably because your /mnt/home is a Fat partition.
And symlinks can't be made on a FAT partition.
There are two possibilities.
1 - Look for the libr office sfs in this formu (use the puppysearch link in my sig for this)
2 - Create a 3fs file in /mnt/home of some 450MB and mount it.
Then install in this 3fs file. (This is the way I did it for OpenOffice)
Posted: Wed 20 Apr 2011, 09:39
by Bruce B
FAT as mentioned doesn't support symlinks.
Suppose we have this directory on a FAT partition:
/initrd/mnt/dev_save/myfiles
Inside Puppy, which supports symlinks, we can make
this symlink, with the command below:
cd # if we want the symlink in $HOME
ln -s /initrd/mnt/dev_save/myfiles
Now, by using the symlink we can change to
/initrd/mnt/dev_save/myfiles
by typing cd ~/myfiles
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