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From: joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Disk Partitions under Sys V/386
Summary: I did it!
Message-ID: <604@gistdev.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 23:30:29 GMT
References: <598@gistdev.UUCP> <1108@virtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee)
Followup-To: comp.sys.att
Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL
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In article <1108@virtech.UUCP> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <598@gistdev.UUCP>, joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee) writes:
>> 
>> [I asked about putting / and /usr on different disks under Sys V/386]
>
>Why not just install the software with /usr on the  main disk, use FACE 
>to format and partition the second disk, mount the second disk and copy
>/usr onto the partition on the second disk, unmount the second disk,
>umount /usr, mount second disk as /usr.  [...]
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I had thought of this, and I got e-mail from some other folks who suggested it,
too.  Well, I tried it and it worked fine.  I did have to re-boot to get the
thing to let go of the original /usr, but when it came back up I unmounted and
re-labelled it, and all was well.  Thanks everyone who responded; you gave me
confidence that my solution was the right one!

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