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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:30:11
Message-Id: 4E341526.7020409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by Samuli Suominen
1 Samuli Suominen schrieb:
2 >
3 > Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How
4 > many users that might be?
5
6 If you have / encrypted, then you can leave /usr unencrypted as it
7 contains no secrets. Also /usr can remain mounted read-only most of the
8 time, so there is a reduced chance of accidental corruption.
9 I don't know the number of users who might want this, and I imagine it
10 is difficult to count them.
11
12 > I dislike the idea of moving libglib-2.0, libdbus-1, libdbus-glib-1, and
13 > couple of dozen more libs to /
14
15 If you say that /usr must be on the same filesystem as /, then there is
16 no real reason to not just make a symlink /usr -> .
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18
19 Best regards,
20 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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