On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:16:22AM +0000, Mark Fisher wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 22:58, Stroller wrote: > > > Some folks prefer to have /usr on a separate partition - it's such a > > popular choice that I'm sure there must be a very good reason, but > I've > > never worked out (or researched, I'm too lazy) what it is. > > I think its good practise to mount directories which could potentially > spiral in size un-noticed on different partitions from / , having a full > / partition is *bad news* and with logs going into /var and 'user > installed programs' [ portage in the gentoo world ] going into /usr, I > tend to keep them seperate. > > There maybe other reasons .. but thats mine :o)
AFAIK the other historical reason was similar but different. If you lost a disk you still had a bootable partition in / with the tools needed to possibly recover data (ever notice how things like cp, rm, fsck and fdisk are always in /sbin and not /usr/sbin?). Not sure what you'd do if your / was lost though, but it's a heck of a lot easier to restore/reinstall an os on / than restore/reinstall *everything* I guess. alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
