Re: /usrmove and path ordering

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Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:22 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> Prior to F17, I've always put /usr on a partition separate from /.
>>
>>     $ df -hT / /usr
>>     Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>     /dev/sda4      ext4   11G  7.3G  3.2G  70% /
>>     /dev/sda6      ext4   10G  7.3G  2.3G  77% /usr
>>
>> I know I'm special ;-), but *that* special?  I doubt it.
>
> I guess it is time to change habits, what's the point of a separate /usr
> these days ?

I like to keep "/" very small, separate and mostly read-only, so that
when something goes wrong with the disk it's less likely to affect
the root partition, so I'm all for the implicit writable/read-only
segregation this implies.

/usrmove is a clear win.
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