On 01/05/2012 03:40 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > The FHS notion of "root filesystem as a recovery partition" existed long > before the relatively modern development of things like busybox and > initramfs made it more practical to use an initramfs as a recovery > partition. Anyone who wouldn't prefer to use an initramfs for their > "recover partition" probably just doesn't realize how well suited an > initramfs is for the job. It's so well suited for the job that it makes > the old FHS notion of "root filesystem as a recovery partition" seem quaint.
Please stop hailing to busybox. I think it's a bulk load of faulty, half implemented code that's not worth the time compiling. You can do better w/ the real tools. (Not my crappy little initrd script, but the well established, fully operational, as used to programms) http://xmw.de/dotfiles/scripts/mkinitramfs.sh -- Gentoo Dev http://xmw.de/
