Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:59:37 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: grog@lemis.com Cc: jmcl@Acucobol.IE, gregor@cc.gatech.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /: file system is full Message-ID: <199709090659.XAA18299@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <19970909085107.25727@lemis.com> (message from Greg Lehey on Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:51:07 %2B0930)
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* The other alternative is, of course, to recommend a 45 MB root slice.
* There's nothing so holy about /compat that it *should* be in the root
* slice, but I don't like gratuituous symlinks either. I'm copying
IIRC, someone mentioned that /compat might be needed at startup before
mounting anything, and that is the reason why it is in /.
OTOH, this question seems to come up quite often and is quite a thorn
on our collective sides. I would love to see it moved to
${PREFIX}/compat (where I suspect it lives on most people's machines
anyway) if that is only a case of vast minority.
Satoshi
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