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On 03/17/2012 12:40 PM, pk wrote: |
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> On 2012-03-17 19:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don't see any |
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>> reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empty. So what? Put |
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>> everything on one partition and go on. |
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> Yes, let's do away with partitions altogether, who needs them? |
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When I was in school the (Winchester) disk drives were the size of |
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a hotel mini-bar and the, um, "diskettes" the size of a stack of |
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four or five large pizza boxes which had to be carried with both |
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hands. |
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I never asked how much these toys cost, but I'm guessing it would |
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be roughly a year's salary for most people. Now multiply that by |
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the number of partitions you need to mount simultaneously. |
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That was the reason for separate / and /usr back then -- the school |
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didn't want to buy multiple Winchesters when they could get the |
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sysadmin to swap multiple "diskettes" during bootup, and let the |
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student health service cover the cost of his hernia repair :p |
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