From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 2:24:38 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525E237B401; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f16AO5c20779; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:24:05 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh 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> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200101191301.PAQ80768@burka.carrier.kiev.ua> <200101192016.f0JKGms55718@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101192016.f0JKGms55718@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:16:48PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message