On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:21:57AM -0700, George Toft wrote:
>
> >Traditionally, and still in spirit. Nothing in /bin and /sbin should
> >depend on /usr being mounted. If it does, then it's broken, IMHO.
> >
>
> Solaris is broken (by this definition). Solaris will not boot if /usr
> is unavailable. A certain bank here in town found that out the hard
> way. The I found it out also when I decided to move the /usr partition.
> Yup, box no boot with no /usr. Solaris 8, btw.
Well, it's hard to put *everything* on the root partition. But you
should be able to boot single-user mode without /usr and have a basic
functionality (some shells, fsck, mount, an editor or two, etc.) for
diagnostics, repair, and configuration.
--
Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group
dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
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