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echo: rberrypi
to: BEN RITCHEY
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2017-04-24 09:55:00
subject: Re: Moving Raspian

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 02:39:54 +1200
nospam.Ben.Ritchey@f68.n393.z1.binkp.net (Ben Ritchey) wrote:

> * An ongoing debate between Ahem A Rivet's Shot and Ben Ritchey rages
> on ...
>
>  >> Yes, I thought about var! So if I copy var to the ssd, delete var
>  >> then symlink var to the ssd var folder, will that work?
>
>  AS >         Yes, but making a filesystem on the SSD and mounting it
> would AS > be better.
>
> The partition is ext4 and already mounted, I would have to symlink to
> it :) but
>
> thanks for the info :)

 In that case yes the symlink will work for you, it used to be
common practice to have /var and /home as symlinks to corresponding
directories under /usr.

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