5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ?

[Jose M Rodriguez]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 20:13, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:48 pm, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> > > /stand is installed as part of the installation process. 
> > > Basically, sysinstall starts off by letting you partition your
> > > disks.  Once that is done, it mounts everything under /mnt, then
> > > copies the /stand off of the mfsroot to /mnt/stand and finally
> > > chroots into mnt for the rest of the install.  It copies /stand
> > > so that it can still get to the utilities in /stand that it needs
> > > while it does the actual install.
> >
> > Is there any reason why we need /stand after the install process?
> > As part of the post-install configuration would it be possible to
> > have /stand removed?
>
> Prior to /rescue it was (ab)used as a sort of /rescue type of thing. 
> Now that we have /rescue, it probably can be removed after the
> installation is complete.

Take care of:
 - it only takes ~2 MB of your rootfs.
 - I'm not sure that /rescue/tar can work without a tmp dir
   and this is really needed for initdiskless oper (/stand/cpio).
 - can sysinstall unlink his own binary before restart?

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  josemi