the "separate /usr" subthread

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:19:52PM +0100, lee wrote:
> >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition.  
> > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one thinking person to change their mind. 
> Thinking persons do not need to change their minds about it because they
> realise that being able to have /usr on it`s own partition is a good
> thing.

It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just
really needs to be available at boot time. That means you can have
separate mount options, filesystems, partition constraints, or whatever. It
just doesn't work anymore to have it on a network share or (if anyone ever
did this!) removable media added after initial boot.

I used the network share case in the mid 1990s, when we were trying to cram
Irix 6 onto 800MB workstation drives. These days, that's not really an
issue. (And, hey, you can fit minimal Fedora in that space!) It might be
neat for some special cases, but I hope we can all agree that it *is* a
special case (and that Fedora isn't necessarily the right thing to cover all
special cases).


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