From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RjSfZ-0000Dn-6R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:34:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA9E721C07D; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BFDA21C01F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (unknown [81.219.203.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 864201B4004; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:35:01 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: zmedico@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Message-ID: <20120107103501.01048e39@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <4F07ED32.2030707@gentoo.org> References: <1325616625.7238.23.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20120103190255.GA13817@linux1> <20120103191206.GP780@gentoo.org> <20120103200120.GB13936@linux1> <20120103212215.GU780@gentoo.org> <20120103230918.GA7247@linux1> <4F03A1AA.6070205@gentoo.org> <20120104091743.0e1cd91a@pomiocik.lan> <4F0440B3.4090500@gentoo.org> <20120104163734.07439f2b@pomiocik.lan> <20120104163315.GV780@gentoo.org> <20120104174742.11d7002d@pomiocik.lan> <20228.34930.732592.657243@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1325698374.22213.10.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <4F050DA9.4060704@gentoo.org> <4F07B7AC.8070007@gentoo.org> <4F07ED32.2030707@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/x7wIqxeUQo6phd=wxrkg0Fu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 74884d9a-1453-4c0a-bb6f-fd509ebd7dfe X-Archives-Hash: d5ea5c4b32c5fad218db03c8647ff61b --Sig_/x7wIqxeUQo6phd=wxrkg0Fu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:58:58 -0800 Zac Medico wrote: > An alternative approach to a having a bulky initramfs "recovery > partition" like yours would be to put the content of a livecd/usb > recovery disk onto a spare partition, and configure your lean busybox > initramfs to mount that as the root if something goes wrong with your > real root. And busybox again. Busybox is awfully big even when all useless tools are disabled. klibc is the way to go if initramfs is not supposed to be completely functional. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/x7wIqxeUQo6phd=wxrkg0Fu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk8IEckACgkQfXuS5UK5QB3qPAQAno5iSypME9EL4krZhdeIKJE3 Jua/byYc2HFLZ+73zuCLEqp/Zu+wPAtLa617aJKv2uMGhV+mnt3AGO+HFWUmQkFP zfTrHgVTK5oP3Chk4gaqYdJTXph5ghJm9VBX8icbLs5eQxBCALxYkp118CP2HULF Ms0K3iycYezAFvEUSW4= =Zu0x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/x7wIqxeUQo6phd=wxrkg0Fu--