On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 03:29:30PM +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote: [cut]
> In our installation, for example, the root directory resides > on the fixed-head disk, and the large disk drive, which con- > tains user's files, is mounted by the system initialization > program > > And considering this, the "ran ouf of space and mindlessly duplicated > all the stuff onto a new disk" hypothesis is at least questionable when > considering this as the 'fixed head disk' was a small, expensive, > 'high-performance' storage device and the moving head disk a large, > cheap and slow one. Which suggests functional reasons for the split: > Keep the stuff needed by everyone (and the swap space) on the fast disk > and use the slower one for 'individual users files'. > I am not that old but, on top of that, we should remember here that in the beginning /usr also contained the home directories of users. This fact, coupled with the observation that programs in /usr/bin/ in general were not installation-dependent, made the case for a separate /usr/ My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
