On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:50:47AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > 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.
Please don't mix "provide all libraries and core programs in a single filesystem" with "/usr/pkg and /usr are on the filesystem". I didn't say anything about the later and there are reasons for wanting to do that are completely different. Joerg
