hike wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Rubens Gomes <rubens_gomes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: <snip> > My question is. "Why do you make a separate mount point for /usr?". > > In the old days of UNIX/SunOS, the hard drives were small and we were forced > to have separate mount points for /, /var, /usr, /opt, /usr/openwin for > SunOS, /home. This and the possibility of actually filling a filesystem to > 100% were the only real reasons for separating the filesystems that I was > ever given. <snip> As I said in the article I published in SysAdmin last year (before it went under) on upgrading Linux, you want that so that when you do an upgrade, you can rename it, then have a new partition for /usr, and let the install format that. That way, a) it's a "clean install", and b) you can fall back with a few renames in single user mode. mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
