Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")
lee
lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Mon Mar 24 12:45:46 UTC 2014
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:56:13PM +0100, lee wrote:
>>
>> There`s nothing weird or exotic about it. I`ve always had /usr on its
>> own partition until the F17 installer refused that, which it shouldn`t
>> have.
>
> I'm sorry but the installer denying /usr on its own partition on F17 is
> the right thing to do. I believe F17 introduced something called
> usr-move, meaning all the binaries in /bin /sbin are actually
> hardlinks/symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. I believe this was a
> multi-distribution effort. In such a configuration, there is no
> justification or gain of putting it in a separate partition, on top of
> that the booting process becomes quite complicated.
/usr belongs on it`s own partition. And last time I looked, it would
not be compliant with the FHS not to have what is needed in /bin and
/sbin but to use symlinks instead.
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