Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 à 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> > well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are
> > /bin, /sbin, and /etc.
> >
> Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ?
You're right; you usually do need them. Not always, though: sometimes
many programs in /bin and /sbin (the ones needed at boot time) are all
statically linked, so /lib isn't needed, unless you have any modules
/lib/modules, at which time you have no choice :)
/dev is only needed if /dev isn't populated at boot time by either a) a
script or b) there's a pseudo filesystem (like /proc, or /dev/pts if
you've seen a fresh install of potato) where nothing sits there anyway,
and the device nodes are created dynamically as drivers are loaded by
either a user-level daemon, or bey the kernel.
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