On 02/01/2010 10:23 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:16:54AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> said: >>> IMO, you are facing a hen-and-egg problem: You've never seen such a >>> complaint, because using a separate /usr partition has never worked on >>> RH-based distros. >> >> Please stop repeating this untrue statement. You violently don't refuse to understand? Please read the whole threat. Citing myself (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-January/129940.html): RC> Consider having /usr on a separate partition and /usr failing to RC> mount RC> at bootup and times at system bootup, during which /usr is not yet RC> available, because it has not been mounted, yet. RC> These scenarios are the key scenarios to separate those parts of a RC> distros which need to be considered "essential" (have to go into RC> /lib, RC> /bin, /sbin) and which to be consider "non-essential". >> As I told you already, I >> have used separate /usr since RHL 3.0.3. > > I've done this for a long time as well, though only on local disk, no > exotic configuration. The "emergency scenario" (/usr not being available) does not work with Fedora and probably all RH-based distros, because there are packages in /bin/* /sbin/*, which are dynamically linked against libraries in /usr/lib*. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
