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To: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: partitions and things that go bump in the night 
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In message <199705131721.KAA15767@seagull.rtd.com>, Don Yuniskis writes:

...

>     I've previously done this with /usr residing on the SCSI drives
>but get annoyed at the fact that /usr/bin, /usr/sbin are not available
>when I dismount the SCSI devices.  Mounting just /usr/local on the
>SCSI drives doesn't help accomodate other things added to /usr.
>So, I think overlaying /usr *completely* with the external device
>is also a win.

Sounds like a good applicaiton for unionfs, thought I don't know if
it's currently functional in FreeBSD.