On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:23:03PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Mon, 31 May 2004, John P. Looney wrote:
> > Like, what's this /usr folder for, eh ? When was the last time you
> > needed to have it mounted over NFS, because your disk was too small
> > for a proper / ?
> Never mind NFS, Small minimal roots are good. Non-system setup stuff
> should not be in /.
See, I'm scarred. I made loadsa money years ago, upgrading old solaris
installs to 2.6, in time for the year 2000 bug.
You have no idea how much pain it is to upgrade a production system from
2.4 on a 15MB root partition to solaris 2.6 (where they recommended a
gig).
john
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