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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 2014 10:08:13 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc on a separate filesystem ?
Message-ID:  <20140905030813.GA52942@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK3oxf=eCJnBGG9cVQx9EKOd8Dzd4re=2GEtGcb6cbMXnw@mail.gmail.com>
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Adam Vande More wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Sierchio wrote:
> > >> > Is it possible to keep /etc on a separate filesystem?
> > >> No. /etc/fstab, among other things
> > >
> > > That's why I am asking.
> >
> > It kind of depends on *why* you're asking.
> 
> 
> Sounds an awful lot like an XY problem to me.

That's fair. Let me explain my purpose. I have created a LiveUSB for
testing and hardware diagnostics with dualboot: FreeBSD amd64 and
i386. I was looking for a way for them to share a common /etc.

If there is no easy way, I can rsync changes of /etc from one system
to another on shutdown, or find something else.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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