Re: Why isn't /bin/sh managed with alternatives?
On 6 Apr 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Shaleh" == Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
>
>
> Shaleh> And /etc is sometimes on a different partition entirely. /bin
> Shaleh> should stand on its own.
>
> So how does the system know where to mount /etc from?
> /etc/fstab is on /etc, right?
>
> /etc is needed for the sytem to come up.
>
For your information, should you ever need to do this, what you do is have
a skeleton /etc on the root partition, which is eventually masked when
mountall is called.
Can't think of any good reasons for this (other than really chronic
mis-partitioning maladies)
Jules
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