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From: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: User Directories
Message-ID: <223@bria.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 91 21:08:27 GMT
References: <709@aos.brl.mil> <1991Apr27.065016.24710@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike
Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, wangh@beasley.CS.ORST.EDU (Haiyan Wang) writes:
|Well. /usr contains a lot of system stuff and it need room for grow. At
|least need some space for all sort of spool space. If you put the user home
|directory inside /usr, then there will be some good chance /usr get filled
|up by user files and you don't have any spool space. Well, it will be
|another story if you put /usr/spool in a partition of its own. 

Acutally, the /usr filesystem does not need to be *that* large.  When
IBM ships us preloaded systems, the lpp's are in /usr, thus the reason
that it is so large.  I simply backup /usr, remove it, and recreate it
with crfs.

|By the way, I never understood why the /usr partition is sooooooooo big.
|I asked the so called 'SE' to make /usr just big enough to hold the system
|stuff and we can always increase it later on. But the 'SE' seems never
|understood my request at all. (Is it typical for IBM?). He made a 400M
|/usr out of a 600M disk. Leave us with a ~60M /u and about 150M empty in
|/usr. I was reall upset with this dummy SE. 

Again, simply backup, delete, and recreate the /usr filesystem; not including
the backup, it's 10 minutes worth of work.  Not worth complaining about, IMHO.
-- 
Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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