Re: [PLUG] Screwed up & hosed - SOLVED

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:25:30AM +0500, Mike Leone wrote:
> Altho it does make me VERY leery about trying this partition stunt with
> the /bin and/or /usr directories.

Short story:  Don't.

As you found out, you run into a chicken-and-egg problem if you make /etc a
separate partition.  init and the kernel need /etc/fstab to find out where
to mount partitions, which is itself on a different partition that needs to
be mounted according to the instructions contained within that file.

The idea behind /usr is that it contains programs for (you guessed it)
users, and the binaries contained therein don't need to be available at boot
time.  The following directories most certainly should *not* be on a
separate partition:

/bin
/dev
/etc
/lib
/root
/sbin

You need these on the root partition so that in case of some problem, you
have a basic, minimal workable system.  They contain binaries for such
commands as mount, fsck, mkfs, ifconfig, module utilities, the libraries to
make all the commands work, your kernel modules, and the like.  Feel free
to move such directories as /var, /usr, and /home onto their own partition.

Hope this helps.  :)

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