On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:18:55AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 04:15:46 Karel Zak wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:52:31PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > > On Monday 12 October 2009 21:19:27 Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: >> > > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:07:16PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > > > > > The bfs/cramfs/minix rarely (if ever?) are used for root >> > > > > > filesystems, so it doesn't make much sense to keep them in the root >> > > > > > partition. Move them to /usr by default. >> > > > > >> > > > > Good idea. Applied, thanks. >> > >> > this was too optimistic... >> > >> > > > FYI: this breaks xfstests as it expects mkfs.* only in /sbin. Wouldn't >> > > > be surprised if others tools do the same. >> > >> > the other example is /sbin/mkfs, this tool uses >> > >> > "PATH=/sbin:/sbin/fs:/sbin/fs.d:/etc/fs:/etc" >> >> you're going to fix it up or should i send a patch ? > > Bad question :-) > > The question is: do we really expect mkfs.<type> and > fsck.<type> tools in /usr/sbin? > > Scott, Kay, any comment or suggestion? It would be nice to minimize > number of differences between (at least mainstream) distributions. I strongly disagree with moving anything filesystem-related to /usr. I think the random split between / and /usr is totally useless and just creates problems for no good reason. It might make sense to put desktop stuff in /usr, but base-system tools surely don't belong there. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
