! ...I usually use a 32 meg root filesystem... it's 256 megs
! on this machine because I got nervous about having a RAID
! setup that I might potentially be unable to access in an
! emergency, so I stashed away a full copy of /usr including
! compilers in a special hideyhole in the root filesystem...

Okay, this sounds like a good idea, assuming one has the space to do it. I'm
just curious, how did you create the cave? Is it just basically a small
single-partition install, then you mount the second partition (RAID) at /usr
on the single-part install disk?

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