Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:38:55 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, bmah@FreeBSD.org, cjclark@alum.mit.edu Subject: Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld Message-ID: <XFMail.010111143855.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010111220021.C79365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On 11-Jan-01 Ben Smithurst wrote: > Crist J. Clark wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:52:43AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> >>> Erm, many things live in both /stand and other places: >>> >>>> ll /stand/ | wc -l >>> 35 >>>> ll /stand/rm /bin/rm >>> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 255736 Jan 9 08:17 /bin/rm >>> -r-xr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1729520 Jul 28 07:32 /stand/rm >> >> I am not clear what you are saying here. Only sysinstall lives in >> /stand, > > yeah, but it can be used as many things. If invoked as "rm" sysinstall > behaves just like the real rm, it happens to be one big binary. > >> Well, /stand/rm is not _really_ rm at all, but I get the point. I >> guess the only question is whether to put it in /sbin or /usr/sbin. I >> think /sbin makes sense (so it is bootable), but it is 1.6MB of >> /-bloat... But from another thread about making 250MB the default / >> size, I guess few care too much about that anymore. > > I'd prefer it in /usr/sbin, some of my root partitions are only 32MB, > and that's not big enough at the moment. If your /usr is hosed to > the extent you can't mount it you've probably got more problems than > sysinstall will help you with. But that's just my opinion. Erm, sysinstall can be used as a replacement for fdisk and disklabel, both of which are in /sbin. In fact, in 4.2 the only tool you can realistically use to splat a virgin disklabel onto a slice w/o weird hoop jumping that isn't documented _is_ sysinstall. disklabel should have that fixed by 4.3, however. However, 800k is big for /sbin: > ll /sbin/ | sort -n -k 5 ... -r-xr-sr-x 2 root tty 299956 Jan 9 08:25 restore -r-xr-sr-x 2 root tty 299956 Jan 9 08:25 rrestore -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 424448 Jan 9 08:24 ipfstat -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 484912 Jan 9 08:24 fsdb -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 513748 Jan 9 08:25 vinum -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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