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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! &lt;---- Instructions</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 24/07/12 07:45 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On 22 July 2012 02:12, Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>  6. Reboot.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>  7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: &quot;rw
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> rd.convertfs&quot; (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Some links were broken in / (they work only if cwd is /):
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 bin -&gt; usr/bin
</I>&gt;<i> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 bin -&gt; /usr/bin
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 lib -&gt; usr/lib
</I>&gt;<i> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:30 lib64 -&gt; usr/lib64
</I>&gt;<i> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 lib -&gt; /usr/lib
</I>&gt;<i> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       10 Gou  24 08:42 lib64 -&gt; /usr/lib64
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:30 sbin -&gt; usr/sbin
</I>&gt;<i> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:42 sbin -&gt; /usr/sbin
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Note the missing leading &quot;/&quot;...
</I>
Yup this is intentional. There is no need to a leading /. IMO this is
just a bash bug:

e.g.

mkdir -p foo/usr/bin
ln -snf usr/bin foo/bin
ls -l foo/

The above is no different and works fine.

Relative symlinks are generally preferred for chroot/mounting manually
purposes.

Col


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