the "separate /usr" subthread

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:50:10AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote:
> > 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.
> But in the modern business environment, users log in from multiple
> places.  How does that work if the user directory is local?  

On modern Linux/Unix, the "/usr" directory holds system binaries and
libraries -- it is not the user directory. On Fedora (and most Linux
systems), that is "/home". And there's no problem sharing that over the
network.


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