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From: bzs%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Root file system size survey
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 12:35:11 EST
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Something you can do immediately on any UNIX system that you are
running out of root space on is follow the lead of 4.3, SUN and others
and create a /usr/etc area and move things out of /etc that aren't
going to run unless /usr is up anyhow such as some of the networking
daemons. Modify rc and rc.local as appropriate (or make symbolic links
from /etc if you run 4.2bsd, tho I would still recommend changing rc's
rather than create complexity where there needn't be any, one exception
to this might be termcap, a symbolic link is a good idea for that one.)

Obviously, use your common sense and think through a little what you
might need if you have to recover the /usr file system from single-user
mode (don't move dump or restore, for example.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University