I used to have seperate /usr partition, previous year, I didn't remember details but there was a bug that force me to reinstall my sytem without a sperate /usr partition. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:14:58AM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > of lib and lib64 to /usr/lib, I'm basically ambivalent. I still don't like > > not being able to put /usr on a separate partition, I know there's a > > mkinitcpio hook to cover that, but I can see the logic in cleaning up the > > Thank you for a reasoned posting - one comment here about the issue of > /usr on a separate partition - if you put /usr on a separate partition > and then made a bind mount to / would that not work? I have not tried > it though! > > I have been doing this for /home which is a directory /opt/home and > /opt is a separate partition - I then bind mount it to /home as a > directory in the root partition. It has never given a problem so I > wondered if the analogous technique might work for /usr too? > > This is a side comment and I am not trying to subvert the main thread > discussion here. > > -- > mike c
