how to change relitive links to specific links?
 

hi,
my question is if I have a directory that is full of relitive links such as ../../bin/usr/java and I want to make it link /bin/usr/java so that when I move the link it does not get lost, what program could I use. The basis of this problem is that I want to move all of /usr and when one does this the /usr/bin and /usr/lib and /usr/share all get very mad. so mad that not even clear command will work any longer. Does anyone have an idea.

Re: how to change relitive links to specific links?
 

really don't understand your question. If you want to remove a link, use rm. if you want to make a link use ln -s

not really, I want to move /usr to another partition. in order to do this I need to make all the links that are relitive to file system place not relitive. So say I have a file in /usr/lib called X11 this file is a sym link to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. now when you look at the X11 file in /usr/lib it is a link to ../X11R6/lib/X11. If you move just the /usr/lib to another place say /secondhd/usr/lib then the link will no longer work. it will try and fail to find ../X11R6/lib/X11. so the solution is to make the link in /usr/lib/X11 link to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Now this is fine for one or two files but I need to do it for over two gigs of files that are quite small. so what I need is a program that will go though all of /usr and locate any files that are links like ../../etc . . . and replace the link with /etc/ . . . what ever that may be. I was thinking of writing a script to do it but it would be far preferable to find an existing program. Does anyone have an idea?


thank you,
wolfe

Make a symbolic link from /secondhd/usr/lib to /usr/lib
Then you won't have to change anything. Although a better solution would be to move the contents of /usr/lib onto the new partition then mount the partition to /usr/lib.

thank you comp I know that the ln command would not work but the idea of mounting the directory at /usr/lib is a great one.

thank you so much
wolfe