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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@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 15:02:25
Message-Id: 4E341C3E.9050002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On 07/30/2011 05:28 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > Samuli Suominen schrieb:
3 >>
4 >> Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How
5 >> many users that might be?
6 >
7 > If you have / encrypted, then you can leave /usr unencrypted as it
8 > contains no secrets. Also /usr can remain mounted read-only most of the
9 > time, so there is a reduced chance of accidental corruption.
10 > I don't know the number of users who might want this, and I imagine it
11 > is difficult to count them.
12
13 That is still possible, since separate /usr would still be an option if
14 it's mounted from the initramfs before init.
15
16 Quote from #gentoo-dev today:
17
18 11:39 <@aidecoe> dracut has module fstab-sys. You might check this out
19 to mount additional stuff before switching to root.

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