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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: inst problem with / and /usr partitions
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Aug21.154043.29181@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 03:25:10 GMT
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- In <1992Aug21.154043.29181@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> rainer@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:
- | 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.
-
- You did the wrong thing. The links to /dev/*usr are remade when
- MAKEDEV runs. Had you instead corrected the entry in /etc/fstab
- to point to the actual (new) disk devices, there would have been no problem.
-
- | My question: why does inst make new links for the /usr partition ?
-
- MAKEDEV does it, because 'it knows best'.
-
- | Can I stop it from mangling up the entries again when we want to install
- | 4.0.5 next week ?
-
- No, do the right thing, and correct your /etc/fstab. /dev/*usr
- are *not* links to where /usr is mounted, but rather links to
- partition 6 on the 'root' drive.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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