Re: oh *** : did i just lose all my data?

From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:49:50 -0500

spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.setup Hactar <ebenONE@tampabay.are-are.com.unmunge> wrote:
>
>>In article <d40777b4.0311041023.3777c452@posting.google.com>,
>>Allecs Chime-Ingrae <eidetic_vilbel@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>[40GB drive, installer made 2GB partition, not big enough, made additional
>>38GB filesysten manually mounted as /usr, login failures]
>
>
>>>! apparently the password file was in the /usr directory...
>
>
>>Nope, /etc . Something else needed at login might be under /usr .
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>
> Which is VERY badly broken in itself.

Not really. See below.

> the whole point of /usr is that nothing on it should be required to boot the
> machine. Everything that's required should be under /etc, /sbin, /bin and
> /dev.

Presumably, once the system is ready to accept logins, it can no longer be
considered as "booting".

The OP's problem came at login time, not at boot time, and by login time,
/usr can (and probably should) be available. 

-- 
Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)