Re: Best Practices Survey: Disk Partitioning

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Date: 09/09/02


From: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 21:56:08 +0200

Juha Laiho wrote:
>
> >
> >Note that e.g. on Solaris (7 & 8, at least) /bin & /sbin are
> >symlinks to /usr/bin, /usr/sbin resp. by default. Figuring out
> >what'll happen if /usr can't be mounted at boot is left as an
> >excercise for the reader.
>
> Hmm.. not /sbin, definitely not. If that wasn't on the root fs,
> how on earth could you mount _anything_ - as all your mount
> binaries would be on a separate fs?

That is actually true. And it is no problem placing /usr on
a seperate partition on Solaris. Still I find the /bin link
to /usr/bin a little weird.

] uname -m -r -s -p
SunOS 5.7 sun4u sparc
] ls -ld /*bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 15 1999 /bin -> ./usr/bin
drwxrwxr-x 4 root sys 1024 Nov 2 2001 /sbin
] df / /usr
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 310959 70962 208902 25% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 1015695 643747 311007 67% /usr

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