On Tue, 10 May 2011 23:10:44 +0200 Bruno Cornec <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karl Goetz said on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:47:25AM +1000: > > > > But all of the existing issues identified by having the separation > > > fail to address an even bigger issue: sharing /usr is entirely > > > incompatible with a modern package manager, and this has always > > > been the case. See: > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html > > > > Thanks for the references. Re-reading the posts I realise i'd > > already read them and it was good to be reminded about them. > > Given these (4) links and related discussion I can't think of any > > reason to keep /usr/ separate other then any issues embedded people > > might have with them merged. If it won't cause issues for embedded > > dev then I'd say we should merge /usr into / too. > > 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. Separating out /var makes sense, its all changing data. > Maybe old Unix habits, showing my age, but I never regretted to have > done so on the systems I'm managing. On my current system i went the other way about a month ago and merged /usr into / after running out of space on / (thanks to multiple kernels in /boot OODing me). > I still think it's too early to decide to merge / and /usr in a > standard such as the FHS. Too early to remove /usr entirely, or too early to require it is part of / (root) partition? thanks, kk -- 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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