From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 16 14:48:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24532 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:48:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24523 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:48:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA09099; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:48:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA25983; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:48:12 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:48:12 -0700 Message-Id: <199812162248.PAA25983@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Matthew Dillon , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel baggage. In-Reply-To: <199812162241.OAA01310@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199812162001.MAA81180@apollo.backplane.com> <199812162241.OAA01310@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message