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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: File hierarchy (was Re: Linux or FreeBSD) Date: 20 Sep 1995 23:02:32 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <43pvh8$c6j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <43hs27$8oc@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <43klfh$2sg@uriah.heep.sax.de> <43ltqq$3k1@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >Just so there's no misunderstanding: The Linux File System Layout >Standard (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/fsstnd/) doesn't allow >binaries in /etc either. But it doesn't seem to be much widespread. :-( The last Linux distribution i've seen (some Slackware derivative) had tons of binaries under /etc, and the tool to remount the root file system read/write was well-hidden somewhere under /etc/remount/. I wondered why they even used to have a different thing than mount(8) for it, in particular since the mount man page mentioned the "-u" flag, as well as the BUGS that "-u is currently unsupported". :) (The man page was from BSD, btw. :-) I admit that this is a simple snapshot observation, but unfortunately, this inconsistency seems to be somewhat typical for several Linux distributions. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)