Quoting Dave Feustel (dfeustelmindspring.com):
> On Friday 01 November 2002 02:22 pm, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > Quoting Tim Donahue (TDonahuehaynesconstruction.com):
...
> > Now, *why* do you want /etc/ on a separate partition?
>
> see http://seifried.org/oag/advanced-filesystem/
Shows how to, but not WHY or what you hope to achieve.

> How much would be broken if fstab were placed (or copied)
> elsewhere so that the kernel could mount /etc during boot?
Ick. Wrong answer. Config information like fstab lives in /etc/.

How about if a basic /etc/ were part of / and you mounted something
over it? (not sure of state of union mounts this decade, but they
used to not work. Too bad.). You'd want at least rc, fstab, a
passwd and group, perhaps others. Try it on a spare disk and always
be able to boot from another to work it out.

If you wanted, you could have the basics in /etc/, then do a vnconfig
of a file and mount that blob over it.

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