Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> writes: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 07:24:48PM +0000, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: >> I would argue vdev belongs in / rather than /usr because it is likely to >> be necessary to mount filesystems and such. >> >> The split is somewhat arbitrary these days but historically things needed >> during the boot process and to repair the system have gone in / while less >> essential bits have gone into /usr >> >> People do still partition that way sometimes so it's a good idea not to >> break the system for them :) > > My server has been running that way for years, with /usr containing > only things not needed during boot. > > Isn't requiring /usr to hae been mounted for booting a systemd-ism?
"Sort of". The justification for the original "Separate /usr is broken" text was that udev hardcodes /usr-paths, in particular, for its rules directory. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng