[ale] partitioning and /usr [was Re: Looking for recommendations on LVM + soft Raid on home server]

[Lightner, Jeff]

/usr because I’ve been doing it for years on other platforms as the UNIX System V way of doing things.  I even create /opt although other than Dell OpenManage I’ve not found many Linux apps that use /opt.

However, there was a separate email in the thread that talks about why having separate /usr is problematical in newer Linux distros so I may move off of having it separate.






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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:00 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] partitioning and /usr [was Re: Looking for recommendations on LVM + soft Raid on home server]

Hmm. I can see having /var, /tmp, /usr/local, /opt, /home separate from /. I don't see a benefit splitting out /usr. I'm very curious as to the reasoning. In fact, I see a decent amount of reasoning to keep /sbin, /usr, /usr/sbin and /etc always on the same partition. Main one is that is what gets updated during a system upgrade.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Robert <rs at ale.spam.futz.org<mailto:rs at ale.spam.futz.org>> wrote:
>I disagree with NOT having separate /var, /usr, /home, /tmp etc...

I've usually broken these out too.. And was surprised to find that Fedora 16
spits out a warning if you have /usr on it's own partition. The seems to be
something to do with the new systemd, which manages the init scripts.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
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