On Wed 29 Jan 2020 at 15:27:50 -0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) writes: > > >> splitting / and /usr. Of all the partitioning choices available, it > >> truely seems to be a pointless legacy from extremely constrained > >> hardware with a significant cost to maintain. > > >However, we still support a lot of this hardware and often there is no > >easy upgrade path. > > The reason for the split might have been size constraints of the root > device 30 years ago. Nowadays it's to reduce administrative costs, > e.g. validating a small root vs. a 10GB large system disk or recovering > from a full root filesystem. I still install my machine with separate / /usr /var /tmp (and /home of course) precisely because of the potential scope of corruption of a single file system, and also fsck-times of /. I don't want the ever-changing /usr/pkg on there. I suppose that if I'll ever be forced to have /usr on /, I'd separate out /usr/pkg. -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams, "THGTTG"
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