In message <878yytnmop.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
>> I am toying with my old Compaq network appliance again, and I'm thinking of
>> trying to build a "complete" installation which lives on a single CF card.
>> How important is it that /usr be a separate filesystem?

>I haven't had /usr and / on separate file systems on any box I've run
>in years. I consider it (generally) a waste of space.

I've mostly done it that way because it keeps certain catastrophic stupidity
from harming my systems.  ;)

-s