[UFO Chicago] Re: Brian's Conversion from FreeBSD to Debian and Questions on X

[Nate Riffe]

Jesse Becker said this (probably recently):
> --- jordanb at hafd.org wrote:
> > Brian Sobolak said:
> > > what about /bin vs /usr/bin?
> > 
> > /bin consists of stuff that you need in the event of a
> > boot failure where partitions fail to mount. /bin must be
> > on the root partition.
> 
> In theory....
> 
> > /usr/bin are all those tools that are not essential and
> can
> > be put on a separate partition.
> 
> ...except when they can't be put on other partitions
> because the binaries are linked against stuff in /usr/lib.
> 
> This bit me once, and never again will /usr be seperate
> from /.  Most distributions are better about this, but
> still not perfect.  Run this snippet, and tell me if you
> want to split /usr and /.
> 
>   for f in /bin/* /sbin/* ; do ldd $f |  grep -q usr; if [
> "$?" -eq 0 ]; then echo $f: ; ldd $f ; fi; done

[inkblot at dorothy:~]$ for f in /bin/* /sbin/* ; do ldd $f |  grep -q \
usr; if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then echo $f: ; ldd $f ; fi; done
/sbin/fsck.cramfs:
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4001c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x4002e000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
/sbin/mkfs.cramfs:
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4001c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x4002e000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

I can live with that.

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