/usr vs. root was: /etc /usr/etc
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> > I just checked and my /etc takes about 2MB. Is that 1MB you want to
> > move to /usr and therefore make root partition smaller we are talking
> > about???
>
> $ du -sk /etc
> 1226 /etc
>
> => only 1.2 MB on my machine (which also happen to be nfs/appletalk/samba
> server + ISDN gateway)
>
> (As comparison, /lib contains 5.7 MB, /bin contains 4 MB, ...)
/lib and /bin can't be reduced. Ok, let's put it like this. Things
that belong to root partition are programs, conffiles, libraries etc
that must be machine-local (hostname, passwd, exports, XF86Config), or
are essential at boot time (init, /etc/init.d, libs, /bin/{u,}mount),
or are essential for maintainance, when you boot in single-user mode,
before you mount /usr (shells, /bin/ls, /bin/ed, and, actually,
everything you may fine in /bin... Huh, what does vlock do there?).
Things that belong to /usr partition are programs, conffiles, libs etc
which are site-wide and not essential for boot or maintainance.
> Agreed, although I still don't see what's wrong with cfengine...
See above and other posts.
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