Submitted 29-May-00 by bascule:
| out of interest civileme, why can you not move /etc ? is it a boot time
| thing?
| 

In short, yes.  There are several files in the /etc tree that must be
accessed before any partitions other than / are mounted.  These
include /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (which actually handles the mounting of
the other partitions), /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and (most critically)
/etc/inittab.

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