On 08/01/2011 10:45 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Samuli Suominen schrieb: > >> that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful >> case for separate /usr, or they have been very vague like adding 1+1 on >> / and /usr filesystem sizes and counting the risk of corrupted >> filesystem from that (one word: backup) > > Maybe I have to explain in more detail: > When is there a risk of data corruption involving /usr? For example, > when the filesystem which contains /usr is being written to while the > power fails or the kernel panics. But /usr is almost never written to, > it is the other directories like /home, /var or the upcoming /run. > > Backup is orthogonal to this question.
should think this inverse; make separate partitions for the data directories such as /home or /var have /usr on / so when / goes down, you still keep your data right?
