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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:48:12 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disklabel baggage. 
Message-ID:  <199812162248.PAA25983@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812162241.OAA01310@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <199812162001.MAA81180@apollo.backplane.com> <199812162241.OAA01310@dingo.cdrom.com>

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> >     I think it's a good idea to move the boot images from /usr to /,
> >     but I don't like the idea of creating a /boot directory.  How 
> >     about /etc/boot/ ?  After all, disklabel already references /etc/disktab.
> >     Lets keep / as clean as possible.
> 
> /boot has been there for a while now.  When thinking about this, 
> consider:
> 
>  /etc may not be on the root filesystem

/etc *MUST* be on the root filesystem, because you wouldn't know what to
mount w/out it.  (/etc/fstab).


Nate

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