Root file system size survey
Barry Shein
bzs%bostonu.csnet at csnet-relay.arpa
Tue Mar 4 03:35:11 AEST 1986
Something you can do immediately on any UNIX system that you are
running out of root space on is follow the lead of 4.3, SUN and others
and create a /usr/etc area and move things out of /etc that aren't
going to run unless /usr is up anyhow such as some of the networking
daemons. Modify rc and rc.local as appropriate (or make symbolic links
from /etc if you run 4.2bsd, tho I would still recommend changing rc's
rather than create complexity where there needn't be any, one exception
to this might be termcap, a symbolic link is a good idea for that one.)
Obviously, use your common sense and think through a little what you
might need if you have to recover the /usr file system from single-user
mode (don't move dump or restore, for example.)
-Barry Shein, Boston University
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