Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Jan 28 15:06:43 UTC 2010
Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at 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)? They don't work without other stuff in /usr, so they
should be in /usr.
> > 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.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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