Separate /usr partition

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Apr 15 14:49:08 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> said:
> If you ever umount /usr0, though, there's no way to regain access
> without rebooting.

That's not true; if you bind mount / somewhere, so can see the /usr on
the root filesystem (bind mounts don't follow filesystem mounts
recursively; if you want that, you use rbind).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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