Matthew Miller <mattdm <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:50:10AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote: > > > It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just > > > really needs to be available at boot time. 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 in the modern business environment, users log in from multiple > > places. How does that work if the user directory is local? > > On modern Linux/Unix, the "/usr" directory holds system binaries and > libraries -- it is not the user directory. On Fedora (and most Linux > systems), that is "/home". And there's no problem sharing that over the > network. > The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where user directories lived. When K&R ran out of room in / for programs, they looked to for a partition that had additional space available and it was /usr. Originally programs ended up in /usr/bin simply because there wasn't room for them in /bin; not for some usage reason. Cheers, Dave -- 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
