Re: Thanks

[Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>]

Hi Max;

Yes, if you want to use /dev/hda5 as the /usr directory then you must
choose to initialize "another partition" during the installation
otherwise all of the files normally destined for /usr (quite a few)
will be copied to /usr on the root filesystem.

If you were to later initialize /dev/hda5 and then mount it on /usr
all of the existing files in /usr "become hidden" and are unavailable
to the system.  While it is possible to copy the contents of root's
/usr to the new partition first it is not even close to as trivial
a proceedure as it might seem.