On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:11:30PM +0900 I heard the voice of Tod McQuillin, and lo! it spake thus: > > A somewhat unconventional approach to this is to install > /usr/share/misc/termcap into the root filesystem, normally > underneath and hidden by the /usr mount, but visible again in the > case where /usr is not mounted. Actually, I take a different approach, in that I no longer separate / and /usr on new system setups. I couldn't come up with any good reason not to. There's no space-wise reason anymore, not for several decades. Access patterns are pretty much the same. The most persuasive reason is to be more sure that / is good, even if /usr gets screwed up. But how can it get screwed up? Random hard drive failure? Just as likely to hit anywhere. Crash-caused corruption? Not really a concern unless you're writing. And I don't write /usr more often than I write /; in fact, FAR less often. About the only time /usr gets touched is during installworld; / gets tweaked all the time what with /etc. /usr/local? /var? /tmp? Sure, they're all off somewhere else. But I'm long out of good, or even not-so-good, reasons to keep / and /usr segregated. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd_at_over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.Received on Mon Aug 04 2008 - 23:52:59 UTC
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