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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Running Interactive UNIX w/2 80 MB HDs instead of 1 160. Acceptable?
Message-ID: <1991Mar03.025118.21345@virtech.uucp>
Date: 3 Mar 91 02:51:18 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.171847.2803@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991Mar1.155756.9501@granite.cr.bull.com>
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kittlitz@granite.cr.bull.com (Edward N. Kittlitz) writes:

>I believe that a lot of purchased software (e.g. oracle, perhaps
>some compilers) expects to be in places like /bin (root filesystem)
>or under /usr/bin /usr/lib ...

/usr is not required to be on the first drive.  The only pieces
that *MUST* be on the first drive are 1) root partition (primarily /, /bin
and /etc) and 2) primary swap space

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