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In-reply-to: <19970909085107.25727@lemis.com> (message from Greg Lehey on Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:51:07 +0930)
Subject: Re: /: file system is full
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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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