Hi, Bruno Cornec wrote on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:10:44PM +0200:
> I'm systematically separating /usr (and /var for what matters) on a > dedicated partition. Could be for the LVM non-LVM reason, the difference > of FS types, and having a FS which can be filled without putting at risk > the rest of the system, or broken separately. > > Maybe old Unix habits, showing my age, but I never regretted to have done > so on the systems I'm managing. > > I still think it's too early to decide to merge / and /usr in a standard > such as the FHS. I couldn't agree more. Besides, there are non-Linux UNIX-like system, and at least on some of them, there is no good reason to have /usr on the same partition as /, since great care is taken to not use anything from /usr in the boot process. Besides, if i need to boot into single-user mode, i really enjoy have nothing mounted but / by default. Typically, this happens in rare, unusual emergency cases, and then i really don't want complicated stuff like /usr get in the way - until i decide it is safe to mount it manually. Oh, and it is nice to be able to boot into single-user mode without the need to fsck more than a, say, half-GB root partition. Yours, Ingo -- Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
