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Re: udev and /usr



On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:23:11 +0200, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:30:37 +0200, Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
>wrote:
>>I have ~600 Machines in the field - all with /usr on a seperate fs - If Debian
>>is going to make seperate /usr a no-go its about 300000 Euros worth
>>of field Engineer time - swapping disks.
>>
>>/usr was on seperate filesystems for decades and some 3733t broken by design
>>Desktop utility turns around old Unix paradigms? I dont get it ...
>
>Agreed. Pretty please let Debian stay a Unixoid OS, which it isn't any
>more if separate /usr is not supported any more.

See also FHS 3.1 "Purpose". "/usr, /opt, and /var are designed such
that they may be located on other partitions or filesystems."

I do sincerely hope that we're not going to start violating this part
of the FHS.

Greetings
Marc

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