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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!cgd From: cgd@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD: /bin -> /usr/bin reorganization Date: 26 Nov 92 17:39:01 Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 31 Message-ID: <CGD.92Nov26173901@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <DERAADT.92Nov17041728@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> <1992Nov18.064604.2992@pool.info.sunyit.edu> <CGD.92Nov18155017@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <awesley.722734655@neumann.une.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: toe.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: awesley@neumann.une.edu.au's message of 25 Nov 92 23:37:35 GMT In article <awesley.722734655@neumann.une.edu.au> awesley@neumann.une.edu.au (Anthony Wesley) writes: >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!). Why? because Bill and Lynne decided to do some things to cater to "dos-dorks" who didn't know better. (another example: the fact that under 0.1, the serial ports were numbered "com1" and "com2"...and that broke a bunch of things...) One of the first things i did when i got 0.1 was post a "how to install it the right way" sheet... Top N reasons to do "correct" partitioning: (1) you modify /usr; to keep changing things in / can be dangerous. (2) the larger the partition, the longer to fsck. (3) easier to set up client/server... (you can export /usr RO... why do you think the "people upstairs" created /var?) (4) possible bonuses for locality of reference... i think (1) is by far the most important... it's a filesystem safety thing. Chris (wearing my "yet another goddamned elitist sysad" hat... 8-) -- Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu "Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark