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[ILUG] History of /etc ?

[ILUG] History of /etc ?

P at draigBrady.com P at draigBrady.com
Mon May 31 15:27:48 IST 2004


Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2004, John P. Looney wrote:
> 
>> Like, what's this /usr folder for, eh ? When was the last time you
>>needed to have it mounted over NFS, because your disk was too small
>>for a proper / ?
> 
> Never mind NFS, Small minimal roots are good. Non-system setup stuff
> should not be in /.
> 
> (ever rescued a system by booting off an old root?)

I've done an embedded distro from source here that has the following:

/bin
/lib
/tmp
/dev
/conf
/proc

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