Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> > The reason a split "/" and "/usr" is *stupid* is fairly simple; there
> > are precious few scenarios which you can recover without /usr.
>
> I've tried to do this before, on an x86 machine which had a hardware
> failure so we moved the disk to another machine, but the device paths
> changed so only / could mount. It would have been very nice to have
> a shell with builtins for the commands from /usr/bin working - while
> "echo *" works for ls, it's not the same.
Which OS release was this?
BTW: I would like to see find in /sbin as it helps to find nodes in /devices ;-)
J?rg
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