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- From: rainer@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Rainer Kleinrensing)
- Subject: inst problem with / and /usr partitions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.154043.29181@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de
- Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:40:43 GMT
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- Hello,
- recently we installed a new 1G disk (IBM) in our 4D-220 VGX. We chose
- to leave the root partition on the disk where it already was
- (an internal 600MB SCSI disk), but to place the /usr partition on the
- new drive since 40x is so much greater than 3.3.
- We copied the old /usr-partition to the new drive and
- correctly set up the links (/dev/usr, /dev/rusr).
- Booting 3.3 worked fine.
- *BUT*: when booting after upgrading (once to 4.0.1, a few weeks after
- to 4.0.4) we saw that the install program had made a new link /dev/usr
- and a new link /dev/rusr. Those links pointed to the first partition
- after our root partition (i.e. the old /usr-partition), where there was
- some other stuff right now. After seeing that, we re-made the links, and,
- voila, 4.0.x booted fine.
- My question: why does inst make new links for the /usr partition ?
- Can I stop it from mangling up the entries again when we want to install
- 4.0.5 next week ?
- Thanks for any hints,
-
- Rainer Kleinrensing rainer@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de
- Institute for Applied Mathematics
- Bonn University
- Wegelerstr. 6
- W5300 Bonn
- Germany
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- Phone: +49-228-73-3427 Fax: +49-228-73-7864
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