Re: [Hampshire] Moving home

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 20:51:22 +0000 (+0000), Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:37:00PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:18:05 +0000 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Note that /etc needs to be part of /, not its own filesystem. If
> > > you're putting / inside an LV then you'll need to make sure that you
> > > have an initrd/initramfs which can cope with that.
> >
> > Not heard that one before (not actually tried) - what's the problem
> > out of curiosity?
>
> To specify file-systems to mount you list their details in /etc/fstab.
>
> If /etc/ isn't mounted, then how can you proceed and know how to
> mount other things? (Similarly other important files live in
> /etc, and are required by the early system boot steps. Some can
> be ignored if not present, but not all.)
>
> Obvious once you think about it ;)

Ah, I thought it was copied to the initramfs (if you use one) and used
from there not the one on disk.

Thanks,

Adrian
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