Re: /etc and partitions

2006-03-02 Thread Jeff Nelson
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:37:12PM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote: Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Just curious, but why would want /etc on a separate partition? Have a great

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-28 Thread Nickolay A Burkov
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:37:12 +0100 Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Have a nice day Michael -- Michael Schmidt MIRRORS:

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Schmidt
Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Monday, February 27, Michael Schmidt wrote: I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Where is the information located that tells it how/where to mount the /etc partition from? Okay,

/etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Schmidt
Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Have a nice day Michael -- Michael Schmidt MIRRORS: DJGPP ftp://ftp.fh-koblenz.de/pub/DJGPP/ Ghostscript

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:37:12PM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote: Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Because init wants to start a shell on /etc/rc, and mount -a ... wants

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Because it is the directory that contains the lists first shell script which must be run, /etc/rc. Same reason that /sbin cannot be a different mount point, because then you cannot get at

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Dustin Lundquist
Michael Schmidt wrote: I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? The rc scripts need to be able to read /etc/fstab to know what filesystems besides / to mount. Dustin Lundquist

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Tim Donahue
Speaking from experience, I put /etc on a separate partition once, only took 2 hours to recover it but it was a lesson well learned... There are several file located in the /etc/ directory that need to be immediately available upon boot. These include /etc/fstab and /etc/rc*. Tim Donahue On

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Monday, February 27, Michael Schmidt wrote: version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Where is the information located that tells it how/where to mount the /etc partition from? --Toby.