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Subject: Re: damaged /usr partition
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Date: 13 Jan 89 23:46:33 GMT
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     In v7n92 Ruth Milner writes:

> This is fine for 3.X systems. However, under 4.0, *all* executable images
> which used to  be in /etc now are just symlinks to the corresponding
> programs in /usr/etc....

There is a directory called /sbin that really is in the root file system.
It contains hostname, ifconfig, init, mount, and sh.  If you wish you can
copy fsck, mkfs, and restore into /sbin as well.

Daniel Trinkle			trinkle@cs.purdue.edu
Dept. of Computer Sciences	{backbone}!purdue!trinkle
Purdue University		317-494-7844
West Lafayette, IN 47907