Disk layouts.

[Keith Gabryelski]

In article <3400003 at cpe> neese at cpe.UUCP writes:
>[Performance gains when the swap area is not at the end of the disk.]
>if you set
>your second partition after the swapper to be the /usr partition.

I tried setting my 2.3.1 system up with a separate /usr partition.  Be
aware that SCO did not intend for this to be done.

/etc/rc.d/1/sdaemons invokes CRON (which uses /usr/{lib,spool}/cron),
and LOGGER (which uses /usr/adm/...); both require /usr, if it is
in a separate filesystem from /, to be mounted.

Mounting of other filesystems is done in /etc/rc.d/2/mntfs.

I had to specifically mount /usr in /etc/rc.d/0/sysinit.

There was also a problem with /usr/bin/logname not existing.  I
created a /usr/bin on the root partition and stuck logname (along with
some other useful /usr/bin stuff there.

I can't remember if the logname problem was a customization problem of
mine or if the distribution disks had that problem.

Pax, Keith

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