/usrmove and path ordering
Jim Meyering
jim at meyering.net
Thu Feb 16 16:55:30 UTC 2012
Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:22 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> Prior to F17, I've always put /usr on a partition separate from /.
>>
>> $ df -hT / /usr
>> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda4 ext4 11G 7.3G 3.2G 70% /
>> /dev/sda6 ext4 10G 7.3G 2.3G 77% /usr
>>
>> I know I'm special ;-), but *that* special? I doubt it.
>
> I guess it is time to change habits, what's the point of a separate /usr
> these days ?
I like to keep "/" very small, separate and mostly read-only, so that
when something goes wrong with the disk it's less likely to affect
the root partition, so I'm all for the implicit writable/read-only
segregation this implies.
/usrmove is a clear win.
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