Re: [TCLUG:16545] Partition sizes?

[John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>]

andy@theasis.com writes:
> > Hence my fusion of /home and /usr/local/. 
> 
> Yeah, OK... I get what you mean now. However, having /usr/local/home/andy 
> or whatever is just weird   ;-)

Mount the partition as /home, create a /home/usrlocal directory,
and a symlink /usr/local -> /home/usrlocal.  I supposed there is
a chance that somethings might get confused, so YMMV.

> 
> > But, I personally would never
> > trust any installer to not wipe the partition. 
> 
> I'm into paranoia too, but never used an installer that didn't make me
> specify which partitions it could use. 
> 
> My own paranoia also doesn't like >2G partitions. Maybe that's not
> rational. 

It may be rational, but not practical anymore.  My next disk
will be 30GB...  [And only $200, yow!]

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