Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:19:52PM +0100, lee wrote: >> >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition. >> > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one thinking person to change their mind. >> Thinking persons do not need to change their minds about it because they >> realise that being able to have /usr on it`s own partition is a good >> thing. > > It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just > really needs to be available at boot time. The F17 installer wouldn`t let me have it. > That means you can have separate mount options, filesystems, partition > constraints, or whatever. It just doesn't work anymore to have it on a > network share or (if anyone ever did this!) removable media added > after initial boot. But it works when you plug it in before booting? > I used the network share case in the mid 1990s, when we were trying to cram > Irix 6 onto 800MB workstation drives. These days, that's not really an > issue. (And, hey, you can fit minimal Fedora in that space!) It might be > neat for some special cases, but I hope we can all agree that it *is* a > special case (and that Fedora isn't necessarily the right thing to cover all > special cases). It`s probably not totally impossible to do it, or is it? -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
