Re: mkfs and fsck in /sbin
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:24:59PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> On the GNU system it will be usual for normal users to create
> and maintain their own filesystems, typicaly on removable media.
>
> Hence they need mkfs, fsck and other filesystem-related utilities
> available in the /bin directory instead of /sbin.
It might be desirable to have these utilities available in both /bin
and /sbin, so programs that hard-code pathnames don't break. Symlinks
would suffice, right?
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Richard Kreuter
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