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Re: chown in /sbin



On Jan,Monday 10 2011, at 10:34 AM, der Mouse wrote:

> [manually rewrapped - please avoid paragraph-length lines!]
> 
>> I would like to move chown from /usr/sbin/chown to /sbin/chown while
>> I will make symbolic link from /sbin/chown to /usr/sbin/chown to stay
>> compatible.  This was already discussed and most of developers thinks
>> that it's a good idea.  I think that chown is part of based system
>> and should be available even if /usr is not mounted. What do you
>> think ?
> 
> For recovery work, there's /rescue/chown.
> 
> Someone mentioned an rc script that uses it; this isn't relevant unless
> it plausibly can be run before critical_filesystems_* are mounted - or
> unless you want to spport such scripts even if we don't have any now.

We have such scripts major reason for this is lvm and /var/run/lvm dir.

Regards

Adam.



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