Separate /usr partition

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 17:52:01 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com>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.


Thanks for setting me straight. Does that mean we're heading back toward
separate partitions for everything?
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