Re: mkfs and fsck in /sbin

2002-11-10 Thread Chris Gibson
On 2002.11.10 02:04 Jeff Bailey wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 06:24, Robert Millan wrote: > Hence they need mkfs, fsck and other filesystem-related utilities > available in the /bin directory instead of /sbin. > Do you agree with that? In that case we should start fixing it > by filing a bug against

Re: mkfs and fsck in /sbin

2002-11-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In fact, I think I presented clearly that *I* thought that there might > be value in eliminating sbin iff it could be shown that a very high > percentage of the utilities were useful to a competent user. I think that consistency with GNU/Linux systems is

Re: This and that

2002-11-10 Thread James Morrison
--- "B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yea, I really need to get my Hurd booting again. I'm having > some small problems with my hardware. I run a Tyan Thunder 100 > with AHA-3490 pure UW-SCSI and dual PII-450. Debian's vanilla > GnuMach works ( if I remember correctly ) but OSKit-Ma

Re: mkfs and fsck in /sbin

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:09, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > My point was that if we can reasonably show that on a GNU/Hurd system > > that most (say 90-95%?) of the commands in sbin would be reasonable for > > a power user to use there is probably value in just having that in the > > general user