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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mounting multiple drives at root
Message-ID: <14397@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 9 Nov 90 06:24:28 GMT
References: <24961@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <24961@adm.BRL.MIL> WEBBG@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu ( Geoff Webb) writes:
-Right now my root file system is sitting on my 65meg drive. I am going
-to add another 40meg drive very soon and would like to know if I can set it
-up to mount at root. I would rather have one file system of 105meg
-then two smaller ones.

Normal UNIX systems do not support mounting a file system on a directory
in an "appending" mode, only in a "replacing" mode.  (Plan 9 does.)

However, it shouldn't be a big problem.  Reserve the first 65MB for system
software (and commercial applications) and the 40MB filesystem for user data.