On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:32:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote:
> > Thanks for sharing your experience, and not just your emotions. One > > of my favorite quotes is, "A man with an experience is not subject > > to a man with an argument." > > My thanks, too! There's nothing like reading on some actual experience > with this. So this was once the reason to keep / separate. Not that > important anymore (but this is still no excuse to force people to keep > /usr in the same filesystem). > A rescue/maintainer mode was *very* useful in days gone by. Lately I feel that this is better served with properly built tool (SysrescueCD and friends) can be stored on disk and launched from grub. Besides, these tools do the job so much better than just about anything you would put in a production /. Just keep your tools up to date, nothing worse than finding your brand new shiny LVM is not mountable as the metadata format is too new :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
