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MGPlastic

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Registered: 2020-04-10

Posts: 1

How to use /etc as a separate partition?

This wiki page says /usr and /etc must be on the same partition as / or mounted in early userspace by the initramfs, but i have not found any solution to use /etc as a separate partition. The mkinitcpio wiki page only talked about the /usr partition

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,097

Re: How to use /etc as a separate partition?

Write a custom hook/wrapper that mounts it at boot, but why do you want to do this in the first place?

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2020-04-10 10:28:47)

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leuko

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Registered: 2020-06-01

Posts: 23

Re: How to use /etc as a separate partition?

...but why do you want to do this in the first place?

Imagine that you use dm-crypt and want to encrypt only partitions which can contain personal data.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: How to use /etc as a separate partition?

The OP has not been back since the original post, so I am going to consider this thread abandoned and close it.

MGPlastic, if you come back and want this thread reopened, use the Report link.

leuko, please pay attention to the dates on threads. This is the second thread I have closed where you have posted long past the useful life of the thread.

Please do not necrobump.