On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, John Johnson II wrote:
> I just thought I would run a little experiment with my new Linux (RH 5.1)
> system. Actually this has some benefit also...
>
> I have two hard drives on the system the primary one (hda) is about 375mb.
> I have a root file system on this drive at hda1 and about 24mb of swap
> space at hda2. This I can see this drive filling up quickly as I install
> software.
>
> My second drive (hdb) is a 1.2 gig and up until now has been completely
> unused so I copied the entire contents of /usr to it and then mounted hdb
> as /usr.
>
> Will this cause any problems in the future? i.e. having /usr on a different
> drive than the root directory? Because if it will I'll probably switch it
> back ( I haven't removed the old /usr)
No problem at all. Some people even consider it bad practice to put /usr
on the root disk.
Frank
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> John Johnson II
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