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Re: sun4 9.0.13: bootkit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 30 08:53:43 2001

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To: "Karen E. Walrath" <karen@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:12:40 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:53:41 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> It, by default creates a partition table that is missing the afs
> cache partition. 

Which machine is this?  If that's true, we definitely have a bug, but
I don't know of any disk type for which we don't create an AFS cache
partition.

> (It also creates one large root partition, rather than /, /usr, and
> /var, but this isn't so much of a problem.)

That's intentional, so that it won't be necessary to repartition
machines in the future when the operating system grows.

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