> >Description:
> 
> 	chown(1) and chflags(1) can be very useful in single usermode with
> 	out /usr.  they should belong in /sbin/chown and /bin/chflags.

they're certainly not necessary (even in a wacked out case, as, say,
chmod would be) to get /usr mounted, and don't help to do so.  I see
no reason to increase the size of / and further...

similarly:
	diskpart
	edquota
	iostat
	mtree					<= VERY useful
	nslookup				<= VERY useful
	pppd
	pstat
	pwd_mkdb
	quot
	rdate					<= VERY useful
	sysctl					<= VERY useful
	tcpdump					<= VERY useful
	update
	vi					<= VERY useful
	vipw
	vnconfig				<= VERY useful
	ar
	as
	awk					<= VERY useful
	bc
	cc
	cksum					<= VERY useful
	cpp
	cpio
	du
	ex
	false
	true
	find
	fstat
	ftp					<= VERY useful
	gprof
	grep					<= VERY useful
	gzip					<= VERY useful
	hexdump					<= VERY useful
	ld					<= VERY useful
	make
	[ OK, i got tired of looking... ]

are all very useful, and would be very useful to have in single-user
mode without /usr.  In fact, i've wished to have most of them on /,
at some time or another.

For some of them (the ones that are marked 'very useful'), i think i'd
rather have them on / than chown or chflags, mostly because they allow
for reasonable system setup/debugging without mounting /usr (hey, if
you get /usr off of an NFS server, what if you can't figure out why
you can't mount it!).

The point is, / is for things that you _need_ to have in single-user
mode, before you mount /usr.  (Actually, some of the things in / don't
really belong there, but that's traditionally where they've been, and
tradition has some meaning.)


Why can't you must mount /usr (even mount -o ro /usr) to usr chflags
and chown?


cgd