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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.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: 23 Sep 1995 11:33:33 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 54 Message-ID: <440k9d$hud@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <43ltqq$3k1@agate.berkeley.edu> <43pvh8$c6j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <43rsc3$1js@lugnut.stu.rpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Damien Neil <damien@lugnut.stu.rpi.edu> wrote: >>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 > >I'm mildly familiar with most Linux distributions, and I have no clue >as to which one you are talking about. How long ago did you see this? A couple of months, and the CD was from at most beginning of the year. Blame the distributor (S.u.S.E.) if it's got it wrong, not me. I was only desperateley trying to get it onto a spare machine in the company, just to have a Linux box around for comparisions. Sorry, i didn't purchase a CD of my own for this but took one from a colleague. >... (`mount -n -o remount -w /' is the correct >command to remount the root filesystem read/write, if my memory serves.) Unfortunately, it didn't there, and i ended up with a system i couldn't use since i couldn't get it to mount its file systems r/w. :-( (After several attempts, i finally gave up and deleted it. Since i couldn't it mount r/w, i've even been unable to look at the man pages.) >>I admit that this is a simple snapshot observation, but unfortunately, >>this inconsistency seems to be somewhat typical for several Linux >>distributions. ><sigh>. Isn't there enough room for Linux as well as FreeBSD in the >world? I didn't complain about Linux, but about just this distribution (and potentially other ones that fail in the same way). Please, don't confuse this. It's IMHO still the biggest problem that Linux is a kernel only, not a complete system, so that everything else is up the the one who's compiling the actual distribution. Definately, the Linux file system standard is a step into the right direction, but only if really all systems follow it. When i said "a CD from earlier this year" i believe it's rather from summer than from January. I didn't love it too much that it's a German one, but my colleague isn't that good in English and thus prefered this one. Perhaps the people making it did put more emphasize on Germanising everything and put a cute installation tool on top (yes, it's really cool), but forgot to update the underlying slackware to a modern version? I've been rather surprised to still find a 0.99.something kernel on it. The CD contained another (apparently more modern) Slackware distribution, too, but the installation tool couldn't handle it (apparently the necessary description files had not been created for the newer version). -- 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. ;-)