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On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said: |
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> I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr |
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> and /var |
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> will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot. |
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> That's |
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> was my understanding of this mess. So, if you are about to do a |
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> install |
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> that needs /var on its own partition, I would ask a dev to see how |
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> you |
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> should plan. I could have misunderstood but I'm pretty sure it's |
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> coming. It may also depend on what you are going to be running too. |
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> I |
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> mention because no need doing it one way now and having to fix it |
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> later. That sucks! |
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> That said, I have /var on its own partition and mine boots fine, |
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> although I haven't rebooted in a week or so. I don't think the |
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> change |
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> has happened yet but is coming. I may have a different answer in a |
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> month or so. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me. What I think you may have heard is |
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about /run. systemd and some other things are preferring to |
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move /var/run to /run. The reason being is that /var does not have to |
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be on the root fs. sysdemd needs /run early (before mounting |
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filesystems) so the idea was to put /var/run on the rootfs, thus /run. |
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I don't think /usr should or ever will be required to be on the rootfs. |
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That's just dumb. The reason we have /bin /sbin, etc. is so that /usr |
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need not be on the rootfs. It doesn't make sense to change that well |
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known/established notion. |
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See also the FHS. |
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