Separate /usr partition

Vaclav Mocek little.owl at email.cz
Thu Apr 14 12:01:30 UTC 2011


On 03/10/2011 05:08 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
>> It probably has less to do with the boot process and more with disto
>> upgrading; i.e. less likely that user files get clobbered if /usr is
>> separate.
> Nope. It has everything to do with booting. Some packages in /bin
> depended on libs in /usr/lib{64} so calling the init script before /usr
> is mounted would fail. There's a discussion about this in the devel list
> if you search the history for it.
I thought that programs in /bin and /sbin are not dynamically linked ....

Vaclav M.


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