On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:21:12 PM Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Sep 16, 2011 11:00 PM, "Dale" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Pandu Poluan<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no > > longer > > >>> be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up' in size? > >>> > >>> When more and more utilities go the non-statically-linked way... > >>> congratulations! You now have an initr* that's practically a > >>> cpio-ized > >>> version of / > >> > >> Now, common: that's an exaggeration. My dracut generated initramfs > >> (with systemd, plymouth, udev, and I don't remember what many things > >> more) is 5 Mb. That's a little less than my several-gigabytes /. > >> > >> Regards. > > > > Give it time. Something will need /home on the root partition next. > > Like > someone else posted, we are headed towards windows land with this. I won't > be surprised if /boot will have to be on / next too. > > > Heh. If it's only limited to 'everything in /' it's still acceptable. MIGHTY > annoying, and most likely an admin hell, but workable.
Would it? :) If there would be a filesystem that reads from the "in-memory-part" and only accesses the disk for write-actions, then the / can be a ramdisk... :) > Now, if everything needs to go into initr* (yes, I'm exaggerating, but...) Like a live-dvd? -- Joost
