"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same > >> drive? > I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks > >> to gain a little bump > in access speed. > >> > >> so if you decide to reinstall the OS clean you can run mkfs on / > >> /usr /var and any /tmps without losing locally compiled software > >> and user home directories (/home) > OM> Another reason would be if you wanted to mount /usr read-only > OM> but not /usr/local. > OM> > > Why would you want to mount /usr read-only ?
As others have mentioned already: a little bit of extra protection against root shooting itself in the foot while allowing 'staff' to play around in /usr/local nevertheless. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
