On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 at 17:50:27 +0100 John Hughes <j...@atlantech.com> wrote:
> On 07/11/17 17:41, dev wrote: >> >> On 11/07/2017 10:29 AM, John Hughes wrote: >>> On 07/11/17 17:13, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >>>> [ separate / and /usr ] is the best way to keep your /usr flexible to >>>> further lvm grows for example. >>> Personally I have a / on a lvm2 volume. Works OK for me, I see no loss >>> in flexibility. >> Until a user fills up their home directory with kitten gifs and you can >> no longer login because syslog has no space to write to /var. > > Neither /home not /var are on /, for obvious reasons. / is for > mostly-static things that are owned by the OS or the admin. > > The separation of / and /usr is a relic of really, really tiny disk sizes. This is just a poor excuse, as there are other good reasons to have /usr on a separate partition. Reasons to have /usr on it's own partition include having: 1) a different filesystems between / and /usr 2) different mount options (like ro) 3) / local and /usr on a shared NFS mount 4) sharing /usr between several installs of the same OS (e.g. to allow to boot out of a USB stick/disk but having the internal /usr available) 5) / static, /usr on LVM or RAID The "my own PC has been like this so many years" reasoning is a very poor justification for a design decision that impacts users that run their systems in the most diverse scenarios and environments, just like the "this (bad) decision was made many years ago" one. Alessandro _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
