So you can mount it read-only locally or from a network exported drive. You need the root filesystem for booting up, but /usr shouldn't be required for the first part of the process (until all local and network filesystems have been loaded), otherwise it indicates a problem with the boot scripts.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:00 -0500, Adam Skutt wrote:David Wood wrote:[snip]these days, I use ext3 for /, /usr, /boot and XFS for everything else.On modern (everything since 1995) drives, presuming that /home andand "data" directories have their own partitions, why segregate /usr out from / ?
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