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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:58:47AM +0200, Dominik Westner wrote: |
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> Interesting I always thought that you can boot a system without /usr. |
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> Anything which is necessary for system startup is located in /bin, |
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> /sbin, /lib ... |
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/bin, /sbin, /lib etc... are the files necessary to boot the system and to be |
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able to mount /usr (seperate partition or even NFS-exported). |
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/usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib, /use/share etc... are the rest of the files, |
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provided by the distribution. This can be NFS-exported as happens frequently |
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on large networks where the boxes are merely intended for command-line usage |
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(but also "bigger" usage is possible, ofcourse). |
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/usr/local consist of the files that are compiled *on that box*, not by using |
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any distribution-provided packagingtool (that's why all the tarballs you'll |
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find install themselves in /usr/local by default). |
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/opt is, as mentioned by another poster (sry, I've forgotten your name), most |
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of the time used for binary installs, such as the LSB-rpms. |
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This is how I've learned about the dir-structure. I think this is also the |
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way that FHS defines everything (in general). |
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I know there aren't tools in /usr that should be in /bin etc... since my /usr |
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is a seperate partition and works great, so I don't think there is a problem. |
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Has anyone succesfully used Gentoo in a network and with /usr NFS-exported? |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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