Re: /altroot post installation set up

[Ben Goren <ben_(_at_)_trumpetpower_(_dot_)_com>]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 03:21:52PM -0600, Steve Lenti wrote:

> Isn't your boot partition on wd0??  and if so why would you want
> to put /altroot on your main disk?? that pretty much defeats the
> purpose of /altroot.

Not if  you've only got  one disk. Sure, you  may be hosed  in the
event of a hardware failure, but it's still a great backup to have
for those times when you, say, untar a new set of release tarballs
over  the system  and forget  to exclude  etc33.tgz. If you  catch
yourself in time,  you might even be able to  mount /altroot, but,
assuming it's under  the 1024-cylinder limit, you  should still be
able to boot from it.

Having said  that, systems  with two disks  are better  than those
with one, and it wouldn't hurt  to use some scores of megabytes at
the start of every disk for an altroot.

Cheers,

b&

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