Re: mkfs and fsck in /sbin

[Richard Kreuter <kreuter@anduril.rutgers.edu>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:26:52PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:26:04AM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote:
> > 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?
> 
<snip>
> In my opinion setting symlinks is not a good idea because it
> prevents us from spotting buggy scripts and fixing them. 

  Point taken.

> I guess the debian-devel people wouldn't like to set symlinks
> either.

  Probably they won't, but there may also be a desire to have files
available in the same places in Debian's distributions.

  Also, unfortunately, at the moment, the body of FHS requires mkfs,
fsck, et al. in /sbin, if these files exist on a system (section
3.14.2), so Debian GNU/Hurd may need to provide these files here.

--
Richard