Piotr Meyer <an...@smutek.pl> writes: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:32:30PM +0000, Alexander Nasonov wrote: > [...] > >> I like it when fsck doesn't take ages to check /. With bigger /, >> it's going to be problematic. > > IMVHO moving /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib to / is reasonable, > and it will not lead to excessive growth of / - but /usr should > remain as separated mountpoint, convenient place for extra storage > needed for src/, xsrc/, pkgsrc/, share/, X11R7/, local/, pkg/ and > - in some cases - home/ directories.
I think this is the crux of it. People put things in /usr, like /usr/pkg, and it is normal that /usr be large. So "moving /usr/bin to /" just can't be done. If you mean "move all programs in /usr/bin to /bin", that's something else. We have longstannding practice, and at this point I'd favor the smallest changes to fix the actual problems.
