Hi, John Hughes writes:
> On 07/11/17 17:13, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >> [ separate / and /usr ] is the best way to keep your /usr flexible to >> further lvm grows for example. > > Personally I have a / on a lvm2 volume. Works OK for me, I see no loss > in flexibility. I recently did a fresh Devuan _Jessie_ install and mistakenly used guided partitioning on lvm2 putting everything in a single partition spanning the whole disk. Shrinking / is, eh, well, a bit of a pain in the behind ;-) > Like I say, SVR4.2 deprecated separate /usr in the 1990's. I haven't > used a machine without the root filesystem being on a LVM type system > (VXVM in fact) since around 1998. I used to mount /usr read-only on my server machines but that quickly becomes a bore when you need to install security upgrades every so often. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
