filePro RAID comments wanted

D. Thomas Podnar tom at microlite.com
Wed May 5 13:16:23 PDT 2004


:> Anyway I think that the best thing would be to have
:> a single mount point rather than accept the defaults
:> and then combine the disk space that would have gone
:> to /usr with the / mount point. Its not like I plan or would
:
:> I'm not worried about fdisk times. I've jerked the plugs out
:
:You shouldn't be if you use a journalling fs.  :)
:
:I don't understand your quandry.  If you install fP in /u/appl and adjust
:the variables in fppath to fit, fP will run properly.
:
:You're citing cases where you've got hardcoded entries to scripts and such
:that are expected to be in /appl.  
:
:The solution seems quite simple.  Install to /u/appl [or wherever], and for
:your legacy accomodations:
:
:     ln -s /u/appl /appl

That would have been my second choice, right after simply installing
your operating system with /appl as a mounted filesystem.

Either would work just great.

Regards,
Tom
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