Separate /usr partition

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Robert Nichols
<rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>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.
>

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.
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