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From: kittlitz@granite.cr.bull.com (Edward N. Kittlitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Running Interactive UNIX w/2 80 MB HDs instead of 1 160. Acceptable?
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.151338.5864@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 15:13:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.171847.2803@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991Mar1.155756.9501@granite.cr.bull.com> <1991Mar03.025118.21345@virtech.uucp>
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In article <1991Mar03.025118.21345@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>/usr is not required to be on the first drive.  
I know that it is possible to get "usr" onto the second drive, but
it is hardly facilitated by the ISC installation scripts. I have explicitly
asked ISC support people about this, and have been told that usr on
a second drive is not supported.  If you opt for a combined root/usr
filesystem on the first drive, you are not (unless I am VERY much mistaken)
offered the subsequent oppurtunity to make a "usr" filesystem on a later
drive. You are offered "usrN" filesystems and swap space.

I have managed to get "usr" onto a second drive, but only by dint of adding
the second drive with filesystem names like usr2 and then subsequent
editing of /etc/partitions, fstab, etc., and a find/cpio to move the
whole /usr directory to the new filesystem. It does work, but I believe
it is not for the naive.


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