* Christian Biere:
> Please, tell me just one reason why /bin and /usr/bin shouldn't live on the
> same partition.

Because /usr/bin is next to /usr/pkg, /usr/src, /usr/obj, /usr/pkgsrc,
/usr/tmp, /usr/local/my_funky_little_sandboxes and a bunch of other directories
that see a *lot* of activity, making it worthwhile to have / separate, if only
for the sake of stability:

* If^H^HWhen your system crashes, having a / that is not too damaged so that
  fsck will be able to fix it on it's own will help tremendously
* / contains /etc. /etc, along with /home and /var, contains the data that
  really matters to me, and it's the data that makes my machine different than
  any other NetBSD system, so they're the filesystems I dump on a regular
  basis.

  /usr, on the other hand, contains nothing that cannot be replaced. Most
  of it can be simply downloaded from the internet, and the rest is
  a matter of patiently waiting untill my build is done.  
* I (ab)use /usr for things that can take up a generous amount of disk space;
  if I don't pay attention and overfill my disk, the resulting chaos is
  smaller if / doesn't suffer along.

There are other things I could bring up, but these are the three main reasons
why *I* have /usr on a seperate partition. Just because you may not agree
with them doesn't change the way I feel about them :)

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Martijn van Buul - pino@dohd.org