On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
Hello, Gentoo.
I've been thinking about the problem of the conflation of every
executable into /usr. If /usr isn't on /, the system can't boot without
special preperations. Nothing new here.
The method usually discussed is
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting
software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way?
Nothing; in fact, this was the general solution to the problem of something
else in
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote:
[snip]
As you move more and more software off of /usr into / you start to realize
that the idea of tiny partition that contains just what I need to boot and
mount /usr is becoming not so tiny anymore. The distinction
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting
software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way?
Nothing; in
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
SNIP
There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you can ensure that any
hard-coded paths to those binaries are updated properly.
Surely this is the same,
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:26:46 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
As you move more and more software off of /usr into / you start to
realize that the idea of tiny partition that contains just what I
need to boot and mount /usr is becoming not so tiny anymore. The
distinction between what is boot
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:27 AM
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:37 AM
My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying
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