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From: J.Purchase@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jan Purchase)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Mounting Separate /usr partitions on A/UX
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Date: 18 Dec 90 16:22:26 GMT
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I have two questions about a/ux which are probably more indicative of my
ignorance of its idosyncracies than anything else - however I'd be eternally
grateful for any informed replies.

1. In my experience, most unix systems have /, /usr and /own (where user
home directories are kept) as separate partitions of the same disk (or on
different disks) which are mounted onto the unix file tree during the
execution of /etc/rc. In A/UX this is not the case, only the root filesystem
is mounted and /usr and /own are merely sub-directories. Why have Apple done
it this way? Surely it is faster, safer and more convenient for backups if
the three systems are mounted separately (some SAs insist on mounting
/usr/spool separately too). Is this possible under A/UX and how would one go
about setting up such a configuration?

2. I have noticed that unix prompts under CommandShell and under the console
emulator are destructible. That is, if one should inadvertantly over-delete
a command at the prompt, the prompt itself (or the latter characters
thereof) are also deleted. 

Grateful for any help
Happy Christmas
Jan.


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