On Thu, 16.04.09 20:11, Konstantin Ryabitsev (icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Lennart Poettering > <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And for the folks who think /usr is awesome because it allows mounting > > /usr ro while mounting / rw: it's not. Much more useful it would be if > > / in its entirety could be mounted ro. Debian allows that. It's not > > too hard to make that work on fedora as well. > > I object on the ground that I routinely make a separate /usr partition > in order to avoid encrypting gigabytes of binaries. My partitioning > scheme usually is: > > sda1 -> /boot > sda2 -> /usr > sda3 -> encrypted LVM with everything else > > This scheme makes a significant difference for things like starting up > eclipse or OO.org on an underpowered laptop (or, really, any laptop > under battery power). Since portables is where FS encryption most > useful, getting rid of /usr will make it significantly more difficult > for me to conserve power and not waste it on needlessly > encrypting/decrypting binaries. It would make more sense to make /home an encrypted partition and leave / unencrypted. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
