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From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: increasing the size of the root partition
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.025830.3313@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 9 Jun 91 02:58:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: brolga.1991Jun9.025830.3313
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grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:


>You should think twice before increasing the root parition size.  Yes, it is
>tight, but generally you shouldn't be adding anything except symlinks and
>mount points.  Root should be limited to the kernel and the basics needed for
>single user mode operation/recovery.

Except that certain changes to Ultrix like DECnet phase V may blow the
current / partition size out of that water. You have no safe way of
doing an UPGRADE with / too small short of smashing it entirely during
the upgrade or resizing it beforehand.

RISC / seems to be much nicer under 4.2 than 4.[01] -Its around 10Mb
instead of 13 which is too close to the 15Mb size DEC chose,  if you
leave /tmp on root that is.

Personally I think making root bigger is sensible. It means keeping
spare kernels around and having non-standard shells like tcsh and bash
in /bin instead of symblinked into it is viable. 

	-George
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