Re: [PATCH 3/3] move fsck/mkfs for bfs/cramfs/minix to /usr

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On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:38 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:

> > > > > 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 figure that somebody will always try and use them for a root
filesystem, or /usr, so they should be in /sbin

(Or somebody will need to rescue such a filesystem without their /usr
available)

Scott
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