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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:24:05 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile
Message-ID:  <20010206022405.J33865@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101192016.f0JKGms55718@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:16:48PM -0700
References:  <200101191301.PAQ80768@burka.carrier.kiev.ua> <200101192016.f0JKGms55718@harmony.village.org>

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:16:48PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <200101191301.PAQ80768@burka.carrier.kiev.ua> Valentin Nechayev writes:
> : sysinstall is extremely valuable to fix system in cases when it is damaged.
> : I think it can live in /stand, or /sbin, or in another place, but this
> : place must be on root partition. Can you move it to /sbin and build statically?
> 
> The problem with this is that / is getting very full and many older
> systems that have been upgraded tend to have problems fitting all the
> stuff on them.  sysinstall isn't required to boot the system, so it
> shouldn't be in /.  Even though it is a useful repair tool, its use as
> a repair tool happens rarely enough that burning space for it on /
> isn't worth it, imho.

So you don't mind me moving fdisk & disklable out of /sbin?
IMHO, fdisk & disklabel are not usable for most.  And don't bring up your
WIP on fdisk & disklabel until they are committed.

Putting sysinstall in /usr/sbin is just *wrong* as its our best disk
admin tool.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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