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Re: Partitioning advice

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From: Perry Rapp
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00
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 I set up LINUX recently on a 200 MB drive, and I have not used
LINUX much, and I read the suggestion in the SAG to have a
separate root partition, so I made four partitions.
 I made a 10 MB partition for root (/ and /etc and /sbin
and I forget what else) because my size was currently 5 MB almost
so the suggestion of 5 seemed way too dangerous for me. :-)
 I made two 10 MB partitions - one for swap and one for whatever.
  I mounted the rest on /usr, and made /var an alias to /usr/var
and /home an alias to /usr/home. It was the only way I could think
of to let home & usr & var all compete for the majority of the space.

  I haven't done anything with it yet, so I can't say how good
that division is. But one thing is that the who command doesn't work,
and it worked before I split the system up that way, so it might
not be following some symbolic link correctly (it has to follow two -
I forget which ones).

Perry Rapp
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From: prapp@csc.com (Perry Rapp)
Subject: Re: Partitioning advice
Date: 1995/05/17
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summary: I made a /usr partition, and some aliases, and who fails
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