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[Michal Hlavinka]

On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 15:56:54 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:43:33PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > This despite the FHS says (right at the top of Chapter 3, the Root
> > 
> > Filesystem):
> >    /usr, /opt, and /var are designed such that they may be located on
> >    other partitions or filesystems.
> > 
> > Do we *really* want to head this way, ignoring bugs resulting from
> > having /usr on a different partition such as
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/#626007, which is what led to this?
> 
> What's the benefit in having /usr or /opt as separate filesystems?

another benefit (not yet mentioned) is for filesystem encryption. I have / and 
/home encrypted and /usr not encrypted (for better performance of my laptop)