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From: awesley@neumann.une.edu.au (Anthony Wesley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD: /bin -> /usr/bin reorganization
Message-ID: <awesley.722734655@neumann.une.edu.au>
Date: 25 Nov 92 23:37:35 GMT
References: <DERAADT.92Nov17041728@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> 	<1992Nov18.064604.2992@pool.info.sunyit.edu> <CGD.92Nov18155017@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:

>In article <DERAADT.92Nov17041728@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>>Among a large number of other Sunifications I have made to my 386BSD
>>system, I've made this one:
>>
>>lrwxr-xr-x    1 root            8 Oct 24 21:05 bin@ -> /usr/bin
>>

>there are problems with this: notably, straight bsd systems
>aren't "meant" to mount /usr when they're brought up into single user
>mode.

>i assume you're running with / and /usr physically residing in the same
>partition.  otherwise, i don't see how this could work -- sh is in
>/bin, so you couldn't even run /etc/rc, if / and /usr were in different
>partitions.

>I think any Sun admin who saw you running with / and /usr in the same
>partition would die laughing.

Then why does the default installation set it up this way? I wondered that
after installing the system and not being asked about filesystems/disk cache
etc. I know that with a bit of work the system can be changed to accommodate
these things, but I haven't done that yet (been too busy playing with it!).

Perhaps someone knowledgeable can explain this??

		regards, anthony
			 awesley@neumann.une.edu.au