I used Linux since 1995. I do not personally see the point of having /usr mounted separately.
Igor On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 03:35:10 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > > > On 4/12/2011 2:36 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > > I had a link forwarded to me today, which may have a bearing on some > > > problems I am having with an unrelated linux install. > > > > > > <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken> > > > > > > My emc install isn't broken in this manner as /usr is on /, but it > > > still throws 31 errors using that sample command line given. I think > > > it may need further fine tuning. > > > > > > But I know some of us, me included, have our own ideas about how a > > > disk should be partitioned, so I thought I'd pass the link on just so > > > the rest of you can check. > > > > > > This pclos install has 61 such errors when exec'ing the sample command > > > line given in this link, and I find I have to completely reconfigure > > > kde4.6.2 every time I reboot. Thats a right PIMA as you can imagine. > > > ;-) > > > > > > I have gparted, ver 7.something, overhauling another drive for a > > > system move. > > > > My snarky response is the old joke- > > > > Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." > > > > Doctor: "So stop doing it." > > > > My more serious response is, this problem is part and parcel with my > > long running concern that the world of Linux developers is become > > increasingly divorced from its roots. I understand how this particular > > problem has arisen, but I'm appalled to see them take such a > > corporate-manager position in response to their user-base complaints. > > So am I, Kent. This is not the linux I jumped head first into in '97 or > '98. As an old friend would say "Not by a hell of a long row of apple > trees" > > OTOH, bear in mind that a corporate attitude is, like the camel with his > nose in the tent, going to prevail for the simple reason that its corporate > that pays many of these developers salaries. > > > This is the sort of guff I used to get from my > > IBM/Microsoft/DEC/HP/<your favorite here> sales and field-service staff > > back in the day. > > And which I have bellered about from/at both DEC and MS. There were > several times when I gave them a piece of my mind that was so far gone it > was, like the bad apple, spoiling the rest of the barrel. > > > I suppose technically it is possible to create a /usr directory on the > > root partition and populate it with a core collection of programs so > > they are available early in booting and then merge the rest of /usr from > > another partition later on, but that's another PITA. > > Potentially much bigger than the one I seem to be having. I have > considered setting up log, as a separate partition mounted to /var/log, but > no one can tell me if when / goes read-only because something went tits > down in the deep end of the pool, and /var was a dir on /, would log then > be read-only too? I dunno. > > I can't reboot without using the reset button now, because /var is already > unmounted when halt calls whatever is after swapoff -a, and halt can't get > a lock, so the reboot is hung. Its BS ok, but it sure doesn't raise my > corn crops by the acre yield... > > But, having been burnt by no logs on 2 crashes before, having /var as a dir > on / (as fedora's installer demands) is simply not an option, I won't even > discuss it. > > > Regards, > > Kent > > Regards, Gene > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> > <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> > Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes > not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as > part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. > Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. > Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
