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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Building Xenix 2.2.1 and partitions...
Message-ID: <11722@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 3 Aug 88 17:47:45 GMT
References: <1411@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <2172@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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What you want is a custom installation with block by block control over
the allocation. Therefore when installing and the question "do you
require block by block control over formatting" comes up, say yes.

Some warning about having too small: things which are in the root
partition (usually) are /tmp (and /usr/tmp), and /spool, for mail, cron
jobs, uucp, line printer, etc. If you run out of space on the root you
will find that (a) your applications will probably stop working, (b)
mail will not send, (c) uucp input will be lost, (d) printer output will
be lost, and (e) your cron jobs may not work.

If all this sounds pretty grim, it is. I would consider carefully before
making the root much smaller, but you certainly can do it.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me