Separate /usr partition

[JD]

On 04/12/2011 03:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 07:07 -0700, JD wrote:
>> On 04/12/2011 03:38 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram<metherid at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:metherid at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>      On 03/10/2011<tel:03%2F10%2F2011>  10:02 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>>>      >  I just noticed that ever since Fedora 11 the Installation Guide
>>>      >  recommends against having a /usr partition separate from the
>>>      root file
>>>      >  system (though as recently as Fedora 12 the Example Usage still
>>>      showed a
>>>      >  separate /usr).  I've always used a separate /usr kept mounted
>>>      read-only
>>>      >  except when necessary for updates.  I was wondering just what
>>>      sort of
>>>      >  "boot process becomes more complex" issues I've been fortunate
>>>      enough to
>>>      >  avoid, and whether the reasons for that recommendation have become
>>>      >  stronger in more recent releases.
>>>
>>>      Some of the reasons are outlined in
>>>
>>>      http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
>>>
>>>      Of course, the typical response is argue that, this shouldn't be the
>>>      case but that is at this point just wishful thinking.
>>>
>>>
>>> Only wishful if people are unwilling to reconsider past actions and
>>> are unwilling
>>> to consider the necessary changes.  The cause appears lost in
>>> Fedora/RedHat only
>>> because 1 or 2 "large voices" seem to consider this a "religious"
>>> fight and will
>>> not consider doing anything to fix it.  The attitude that the
>>> Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
>>> is outmoded and unnecessary and that modern hardware doesn't need to
>>> keep things
>>> on separate spindles or take space considerations into account anymore
>>> belongs
>>> to these "large voices" in this realm and  therefore it cannot be fixed.
>>>
>>> In actuality, only a few pieces need to be moved, but instead major
>>> surgery was applied
>>> to move the whole of /usr into / instead of applying a band aid and
>>> move a few small
>>> pieces around.
>> I generally agree.
>> My reasons for keeping separate /,  /var, and /usr
>> has been / is  to provide some degree of protection
>> from corruption to the file system. If all of these were
>> under /, then a corruption in / would make the other
>> two also inaccessible. So They indeed ought to be kept
>> separate for that reason, to minimize loss.
>>
>> Cheersm
>>
>> JD
>   Separating these file system trees is not more efficient unless the
> partitions are on separate hard drives.
>
>
Sorry, I said nothing about efficiency.
I merely separate these dirs onto separate
partitions to prevent the corruption of one
of them to affect the accessibility to the others.