On 01/28/2010 04:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203(a)freenet.de> said:
> On 01/27/2010 02:17 PM, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
>> Do you think moving this is a bad idea?
> Yes.
>
> The pciutils are valuable tools when trying to recover from situations
> when "things go utterly wrong".
So what difference does it make where they are (e.g. why do you say this
is a bad idea)?
Consider having /usr on a separate partition and /usr failing to mount
at bootup and times at system bootup, during which /usr is not yet
available, because it has not been mounted, yet.
These scenarios are the key scenarios to separate those parts of a
distros which need to be considered "essential" (have to go into /lib,
/bin, /sbin) and which to be consider "non-essential".
They don't work without other stuff in /usr, so they
should be in /usr.
Rsp. this "other stuff currently in /usr" needs to
move, too.
>> only problem can be with separate /usr partition but because
of library in
>> /usr it would be already broken and I've not seen any complain about it
ever.
> Well, a separate /usr-partition has never worked on RH-based distros.
I beg to differ; I've been using a separate /usr (mounted read-only
except during maintenance) on RHL, RHEL, and Fedora for at least 13
years.
Really? The situation definitely has improved over times, but I recall
times, when not even "rpm" was able to run without /usr.
Consider taking out /usr from your fstab and to check how far you can get.
With /sbin/lspci you will be able to check your pci setup, with
/usr/sbin/lspci, you wouldn't.
Should setpci be used somewhere in bootup scripts, you likely won't be
able to boot up your system at all.
Ralf