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- From: bkc2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Benjamin Clardy)
- Subject: Re: / and /usr on separate disks in 4.1.3?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.001751.11387@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:17:51 GMT
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- In article <C17oCA.D75@athena.cs.uga.edu> weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Weinrich) writes:
- >I'm about to move up from OS 4.1 to 4.1.3 on my SPARC 1+'s.
- >For space reasons, it would be nice to have the root (/)
- >partition on one disk and /usr on another. Is this legal?
- >Are there reasons why I should not do it? I tried to check
- >TFM, but the install manual for 4.1.3 doesn't seem to say one
- >way or the other. Our old 4.1.1 manual says that they *should*
- >be on the same disk so that the system will boot even if the
- >second drive fails. If I'm willing to accept that risk, does
- >anyone know of an over-riding reason not to go ahead and do this?
- >
- Most / file systems are fairly small unless you need a lot of room
- for spooling. So unless you are cramped for space, why not put
- / on both disks, using one as backup.
-
- Otherwise, I don't really see the caution in splitting up / and /usr.
-
- Benjamin
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- Benjamin Clardy bkc2@midway.uchicago.edu
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