Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bywater!arnor!arnor!marc From: marc@arnor.uucp Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: RS/6000 -- why can't I move /usr somewhere else? Message-ID: Date: 20 Dec 90 13:31:05 GMT References: <1990Dec18.230856.24448@lavaca.uh.edu> Sender: news@arnor.uucp (NNTP News Poster) Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu's message of 18 Dec 90 23:08:56 GMT I believe that /usr must be in the root volume group. I think it needs to get mounted during startup before the other volume groups are brought up. You have (or had) a number of choices. 1. Add the wren to the root volume group. If you had done this, and could get away with ignoring which disk data was on, you would have been done. Just grow the various file systems and paging space as you like. 2. Install with the wren as the root volume group. There is a menu path during install for specifying the boot disk and the disk(s) in the root volume group. (I don't think its possible (and its certainly not easy) to move volume groups around after install.) You could then make the 120 a second volume group, and put most of the paging space on it. 3. Install with the wren as the boot disk, but both disks in the root volume group. 4. Add the wren to the root volume group, and then move /usr completely on to it. This, I think, takes some wizardry and doing some of the steps in maintenance mode. But I think its possible. 5. Install on the wren, then add the 120 to the root volume group later, and move paging space to it. -- Marc Auslander