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From: sja2249@ucs.usl.edu (Alleman Samuel J)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: a small problem
Date: 7 Dec 1995 01:02:18 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
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Apparently, I'm a real idiot. I just recently switched from Linux 
to FreeBSD. I installed on 2 partitions, each about 200 megs. Under linux,
when things got tight on my /usr partition, I'd copy /usr/lib over to my
root partition ( /usr/lib was usually 60 megs or more ) and then cross-link
it. Well..... things got tight on my /usr partition under FreeBSD, so I 
attempted to do the same thing. Well, now I've noticed that several things
don't work. Most of the problems seem to be with programs that use curses (
vi, less, kermit, etc. ). These programs usually die with a "Bus error..".
What can I do to remedy the situation? I've already moved all of the libraries
back to /usr/lib, with no success. Is this a permissions problem? Perhaps the
owner is wrong? Maybe the inode numbers make a difference? Help!!!

Sam