Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:15:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel baggage. Message-ID: <199812162315.PAA01530@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:48:12 MST." <199812162248.PAA25983@mt.sri.com>
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> > > I think it's a good idea to move the boot images from /usr to /, > > > but I don't like the idea of creating a /boot directory. How > > > about /etc/boot/ ? After all, disklabel already references /etc/disktab. > > > Lets keep / as clean as possible. > > > > /boot has been there for a while now. When thinking about this, > > consider: > > > > /etc may not be on the root filesystem > > /etc *MUST* be on the root filesystem, because you wouldn't know what to > mount w/out it. (/etc/fstab). This presumes you're running a completely stock init, but perhaps I should have been clearer; in some cases you will remount a new /etc over the (minimal) /etc used to bring the system up. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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