On Friday, September 16, 2011 12:00:16 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:46:02 +0200 > > Joost Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > > Anyway, Debian is the only "big" distro recommending separated /usr, > > > and then only for multiuser setups. It's really years since I've > > > looked at the recommended partition schemes: when I started using > > > Linux, a separated /home was almost a must. And we had tiny hard > > > drives then. Now get out of my lawn. > > > > Gentoo still has some guides recommending split /usr: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > > > > There are several people using this type of layout. > > The suggested partitioning scheme is usually for beginner > > installations. Not necessarily for larger installations with specific > > requirements. > > Using layout suggestions from install docs to justify what the udev > maintainers want to do is simply disingenuous.
I referenced that asa response to the list of "distro-guides". > > The install docs are obviously a guideline only and do not form any > sort of requirement. That is obvious to anyone with some experience in > the field. Anyone suggesting otherwise is either being hyper-literal or > is following some sneaky agenda. Either way, neither type should be > allowed anywhere near policy making as their goals conflict with the > community. I agree and I used my example to point out that any layout that is used by a few people is likely to be documented somewhere on the internet. > > The debian guide talks about 20GB drives. I don't have those anymore. > > the smallest drive I have is a 320GB IDE-drive for the database > > server in the lab. > > I need 73G SCSI drives for some old servers still running, they cost a > fortune from Dell. The nice man from Dell sales tells me they haven't > had 20G drives in the stores for years and years, he mentioned numbers > like "5" or "8" Yes, the 320GB disk is in a machine that was written off by some company about 4 or 5 years ago. Not sure how long that company used it before they got rid of it. -- Joost
