Yum and Fedora 16 -- focus on "new/moved filesystems"

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Feb 9 18:35:16 UTC 2012



Am 09.02.2012 19:30, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 02/09/2012 10:00 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> David:
>>
>> Thanks for the link, I was unaware of this change for F17.
> 
> Yes indeed.  When I read what was going to be done, my first thought was, "Dear Ghod in Heaven, *why?*"  By the
> time I reached the bottom of the page it all made sense.  One question, though: will there be a way to recover the
> disk space used by the now-redundant directories?  I know that with modern disks the amount lost is probably
> trivial, but I go back to the days when a 40MB drive was *huge,* and I still don't like wasting space for no good
> reason.  Besides, it's untidy.

which disk space?
where does a symlink consume noticeable space?

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