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Historically those DIRs contained all utils/tools to manage the system |
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and fix problems etc. when you are unable to get /usr up, i.e. when it's |
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remote. The rootfs basically contained all the core system-tools minus |
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all the apps, which usually were managed centrally. |
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With bbox of course one could mimic this to a certain point easily |
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within an initramfs though. |
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Regards |
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-Sven |
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On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 15:45 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> "Historically /bin, /sbin, /lib had the purpose to contain the utilities |
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> to mount /usr. This role can now be taken by the initramfs. Because the |
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> initramfs knows, where to find the root partition (which includes /etc), |
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> it can parse /etc/fstab and other configuration files and mount /usr |
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> before it finally switches the root partition and executes |
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> /usr/bin/init. From this point on init mounts the remaining partitions |
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> in /etc/fstab and the system starts as usual." |
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> >> Cheers, |
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> >> Kacper |
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