All of the shells are on /usr/bin, and symlinked from /bin
This makes it exceedingly difficult to boot when /usr is gone :)
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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Darrin Chandler wrote:
> 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.
>
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