[clue-tech] Partition madness

[David L. Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> What happens if you put /etc on a different partition from / ?  Does
> this mean the boot loader also needs to tell the kernel where /etc is so
> it knows what other partitions can be mounted?

Like Jim said, don't do that.  The only partition the kernel mounts 
itself is /.  That has to contain enough code to get all the rest of 
your filesystems mounted.  Ever wonder why there's a /bin and a 
/usr/bin?  Ever wonder why LVM programs go in /bin?  Now you know.

So /sbin has to be in the / partition because the kernel runs init from 
there before anything else.  And /etc has to be there as well because 
init reads the inittab (and rc scripts) from it.

HTH,
Dave
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