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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:33:51 +0930 (CST)

Re: Standarts/Conventions for /usr & /home as mounted dirs

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Richard Sharpe wrote:

<SNIP>
> [1] Recently was working on a system which had separate /, /usr, /tmp,
> /var, /home, on an 8GB disk. The disk was also storing backups from other
> systems. There was plenty of space on the disk, but it was scattered over
> all those damn partitions, and our backups failed.  The machine now has two
> 8.4GB disks, with only swap, /boot and / on the first, and the second is
> all one partition.
> 
> As a bonus point, why did I use /boot?

To avoid bios(1024 cylinder) boundry problems and make lilo happy :) 

Cheers,
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* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au
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