sean finney on Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:45:13 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:11:59AM -0800, Wayne Dawson wrote:
> In case people are interested, I have given up getting this computer to 
> boot from raid - I have to move on.  Instead, I have it booting with /home, 
> /usr, /var, and swap on scsi raid.  / and /boot are on non-raid ide.
> 
> Is there a way to put /etc on a separate partition?

i'm sure it could be done (maybe needing some hacks[1]) using initrd,
but the question is:  why?  this seems like a Bad Way to do things...
if you want to make more partitions, partition off /lib, or /usr/local,
or find the hot places for your distribution that could stand to have
themselves partitioned off (e.g., /var/cache in debian).  


	sean

[1] the script that says to mount other filesystems is run after init
    is started, after /etc/inittab[2] is sourced, and itself lives in /etc....
 
[2] assuming you're using sysv based init, a similar principle applies
    to bsd-style init.

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