On Tue, 10 May 2011 23:28:19 +0200 Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Do any of those systems use this standard? If so it would be good to get some representation from them on this list. > 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 Complicated stuff like /usr? not sure I follow what you mean here. > 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. I'm impressed you bother to stagger your fscks :) kk > > Yours, > Ingo > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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