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

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, oka

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

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

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 M

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 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 a

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 /