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On 04/09/2012 11:09 AM, Steven J Long wrote: |
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> One thing that has bothered me with the mooting of an initramfs as the new |
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> rescue system that rootfs has traditionally been, is at the we are told at |
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> the same time that the initramfs can be very minimal. If so, how does it |
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> provide the same capabilities as rootfs (for those of us who can localmount |
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> without udev-configured devices)? |
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We've had some discussion on this before [1], and I've suggested to copy |
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the content of livecd/usb recovery disk onto a spare partition so that |
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you can boot into that if necessary. The advantage of using this |
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approach is that it eliminates the burden of maintaining the "/ is a |
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self-contained boot disk that's independent of /usr" use case. |
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[1] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ceb908069aafdfff50e7f2d0732bf209.xml |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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