Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:34:23PM -0400, Gregg C wrote:
> > Why split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same
> drive?
> > I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks to gain a little
> bump
> > in access speed.
>
> so if you decide to reinstall the OS clean you can run mkfs on / /usr
> /var and any /tmps without losing locally compiled software and user
> home directories (/home)
Another reason would be if you wanted to mount /usr read-only but not
/usr/local.
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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