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Re: /etc and partitions

From: Nickolay A Burkov (rootreklamy.ru)
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 02:35:42 CST


On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:37:12 +0100
Michael Schmidt <mschmidtFh-Koblenz.de> 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?
>
> Have a nice day
> Michael
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/usr/src/sbin/init/pathnames.h:

#define _PATH_RUNCOM "/etc/rc"

I think it may be changed to something else accessibly,
but on line 201 in /etc/rc there is /sbin/mount executions,
so /etc/fstab should be accessed before this line.

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