Re: moving /bin

unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Kettlewell <rjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

/bin contains the programs required before /usr has been mounted
(for instance, in order to mount other filesystems in the first
place). The most obvious example is /bin/mount. Therefore it has to
be on the root filesystem.

/bin also contains a LOT of stuff not needed at boot-time, so he
could keep a stripped-down version on the root filesystem. To make
it really tiny, you could strip down busybox...

/bin is already pretty stripped down. I would hesitate about moving
any of them.

Also, "it's more complicated than that": some of the things in /bin (and
/sbin) are there not because they are required for a routine boot but
because they are useful to have around in an emergency. mkfs and fuser
are probably be good examples.

At 10MB for the pair (on this here Debian box), you'd have to be in a
slightly specialized situation before it's worth the effort to reduce
them, too.

--
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
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