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From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive UNIX 2.2 (really V.3 and V.4)
Summary: an alternate way, too...
Message-ID: <641@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 90 16:16:23 GMT
References: <7820@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <40800013@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> <+CX3CVG@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <+CX3CVG@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <1067@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> >   I want symbolic links, so I can put /usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news
> > in one filesystem by itself.
 
> It's dead-easy to do this anyway. I have /work1/news/lib and
> /work1/news/spool. Both B and C news let you put your lib and spool
> directories *anywhere*.

It's also possible to create a filesystem named news, containing a lib
and spool directory, and mount it under /usr. While /usr/news/spool and
/usr/news/lib aren't exactly conventional pathnames, it keeps news 
files together and linkable, while allowing as much spooldir as you
care to allocate.

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