Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:48:15 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111846200.10145-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199811112312.PAA16909@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * No, you forget, there's 2 reasons to have things in /. One, they're > * needed for boot. Two, they qualify as emergency repair tools. > * Diskalbel falls into the 2nd category (note I agree with Nate's original > * position here). > > And the bootblocks might be needed for emergency repair. Consider, if > you have a disk that's failing all over the place, you managed to boot > single-user from it (or booted from a floppy) and mounted root, you > now need to somehow set up a bootable FreeBSD installation on your > second hard drive. You are toast if the bootblocks are in the broken > /usr. No, Nate's got a point. How many times have you hand-mounted /usr? I know darned well I have (I *hate* using ex to edit files!). As long as mount (+friends) are under /, then disklabel's available. > > Satoshi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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