bascule wrote:
out of interest civileme, why can you not move /etc ? is it a boot time
thing?
bascule
Civileme wrote:
Gavin Clark wrote:
on 5/28/00 10:14 PM, Mike Zachry wrote:
My partitions are
hdb1 as /boot
hdb5 as /
hdb6 as swap
hdb7 as /home
on 5/28/00 10:14 PM, Mike Zachry wrote:
My partitions are
hdb1 as /boot
hdb5 as /
hdb6 as swap
hdb7 as /home
when I try to install RPM's now it says they need nnn
KB on / filesystem. I have tried uninstalling some of
the RPM's (about 10-20 MB of them) and still have
0.0KB left on hdb5.
Gavin Clark wrote:
on 5/28/00 10:14 PM, Mike Zachry wrote:
My partitions are
hdb1 as /boot
hdb5 as /
hdb6 as swap
hdb7 as /home
when I try to install RPM's now it says they need nnn
KB on / filesystem. I have tried uninstalling some of
the RPM's (about 10-20 MB of them) and
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:28:35PM +0100, bascule wrote:
- out of interest civileme, why can you not move /etc ? is it a boot time
- thing?
-
- bascule
Yes. /etc/mtab is necessary for mounting drives, so you have a nice
Catch 22 if you have to mount /etc to get at it. /etc/fstab is also often
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
On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote:
My partitions are
hdb1 as /boot
hdb5 as /
hdb6 as swap
hdb7 as /home
when I try to install RPM's now it says they need nnn
KB on / filesystem. I have tried uninstalling some of
the RPM's (about 10-20 MB of them) and still have
0.0KB left on hdb5. I
My partitions are
hdb1 as /boot
hdb5 as /
hdb6 as swap
hdb7 as /home
when I try to install RPM's now it says they need nnn
KB on / filesystem. I have tried uninstalling some of
the RPM's (about 10-20 MB of them) and still have
0.0KB left on hdb5. I can't figure out what is taking
up all that
