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From: rob@xyzoom.info.com (Rob Lingelbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Separate /usr/spool partition possible?
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Date: 19 Nov 90 02:01:59 GMT
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I am about to start a bbs under ISC 2.2, and I only have 2 filesystem
partitions, / and /usr.  I am concerned about fragmentation, and want
to move my news SPOOLDIR out of /usr, and have the bbs file area there
as well.  A friend of mine has installed ESIX on a 386 and he
successfully renamed /usr2 to /usr/spool--a seemingly elegant solution,
as he now doesn't have to get into all the configuration files and
compiled-in localizations to change the file references.

My question is, has anyone done this with ISC 2.2, or is it
theoretically possible?  I have been told that the operating system
"will know what to do" when it wants to write or read /usr/spool and
finds a /usr partition as well.
If it's permissible, I intend to back up the system, then reinstall,
creating 3 partitions, /, /usr, and /usr/spool.  Then restore
(hopefully files from the old /usr/spool/ will go into the new
/usr/spool/).

Thanks in advance for any help.


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