030918 Bill Mullen wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Philip Webb wrote:
>> if i make a separate partition for  /etc , mt i run into a problem ?
>> i'm wondering if it mb needed for booting before part'ns are mounted
>> & seem to remember someone having trouble with this once somewhere.
> Yes, you will have a problem if /etc is not on the "/" partition,
> for the reason that you state.

my memory is better than i thought it was (grin)!

> Generally, the contents of /etc don't take up an awful lot of space anyway,
> as we're talking mostly text files here.

my reason is not space, but emergency re-installs (hopefully never needed).
it wb nice not to lose my fine-tuned settings & configur'ns,
but i'm fairly conscientious re back-ups, which always include  /etc ,
so it's not vital to be able to re-install w/o reformatting  /etc .

> HTH

thanx, it certainly has !

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