In message <20030605235926.GF7074@goldberry.poofy.goof.com>, "Aaron J. Grier" w
rites:
>On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:05:53PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
>
>> It's up to the individual, of course, and I can see where / and /usr
>> make a good merge now (but don't enforce it, please, by doing
>> something stupid like making dependencies on /usr being mounted in
>> single-user mode!),
>
>I'll try and work the contrapositive.  disk space permitting, a single
>partition has always been possible under unix, as far as I am aware.  so
>how far can things be split out?
>
>what is the minimum partition required for single user mode?
>
>on a recently born 1.6.1 machine:
>
>/altroot
>/amd
>/bin
>/dev
>/etc
>/kern
>/mnt
>/net
>/root
>/sbin
>/stand
>/tmp
>/usr
>/var
>
>besides /bin, /sbin, and /dev, what else is necessary on the root
>partition for single user mode?
>

Probably /etc, for /etc/rc* to get out of single-user mode cleanly.

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