On 15/10/11 06:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 10/15/2011 01:57 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> On 15.10.2011 10:42, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>> in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans? >> >> We don't support /usr on a separate partition. People can, of course, do >> that and I'll point them to dracut for creating an initramfs. >> >> Or they can do whatever works for them. People using Exherbo are >> expected to be able to deal with such stuff. > > I don't think it's a good idea for Gentoo to encourage users to have > /usr on a separate partition. We should probably remove the separate > /usr partition from "Code Listing 2.1: Filesystem usage example" in our > handbook: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap2_pre1 >
For desktops i've never seen much purpose of having /usr on its own partition (or more than the usual 3 of /boot,/,swap tbh), but for servers I have seen a lot of configurations over the years that put /usr on its own partition. Exherbo aside, I would expect that Gentoo would (continue to?) support doing this. As per the documentation itself, Code Listing 2.1 is i believe an example of what is possible, not what we are encouraging users to do. That doc seems pretty clear that the default is partitioning scheme is the default /boot,/,swap ... And just to confirm, doesn't udev's installation (which is primarily in /lib) support /usr on a separate partition now, without an initramfs?
