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Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?



said Ross Boylan (on 2002-11-14),

> Can anyone tell me what / directories are reasonable to mount from
> other partitions/volumes, and which must stay put for safety?

>From http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html:


The root partition / must always physically contain /etc, /bin, /sbin,
/lib and /dev, otherwise you won't be able to boot.  Typically 100 MB is
needed for the root partition, but this may vary.

Geordie.



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