On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > this is what I have here. Also, should we put /etc in a different > partition? Under absolutely no circumstance should you put /etc in its own partition! This is because /etc is required for boot, to read /etc/fstab, and startup scripts. /etc/fstab tells what partitions are to be mounted where. If /etc were on its own partition, it would be impossible to read /etc/fstab, and the system wouldn't boot. That's a simplified explanation. Actually, there are a *lot* of required files in /etc. Basically, /etc, /root, /bin, and /sbin should always be part of the root partition.
