From: tractng on
Guys,

Might be a dump question, but the directory size on these two
directories are not independent of each other?

I am manually partition them. Can I have usr directory smaller than
usr/local directory?


Logically, it shows user/local under usr directory.


Thanks,
tony

From: Bit Twister on
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:40:16 -0700, tractng(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Might be a dump question,

Dang, claremontmckenna.edu must have a low entry requirement. :)

Guessing that should read a /dumb/ question

> but the directory size on these two
> directories are not independent of each other?

That is pretty hard to believe.

$ du -ms /usr/local
7298 /usr
127 /usr/local



> I am manually partition them.

Should read I /have/ manually /partitioned/ them.

> Can I have usr directory smaller than
> usr/local directory?

Sure, if all the subdirectories are links to other partitions.