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Re: /etc and partitions

From: Hannah Schroeter (hannahschlund.de)
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 12:39:48 CST


Hello!

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:37:12PM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote:
>Hello,

>version: 3.8
>architecture: i386

>I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition.
>Why can it be not on an extra partition?

Because init wants to start a shell on /etc/rc, and mount -a ... wants
/etc/fstab to find any other file systems.

That's only 2 reasons. There're probably more than that.

Kind regards,

Hannah.