On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:15:11AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:25:11PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > /usr can be read-only while /var must be read-write. Also /var might > > cause fragmentation on the FS and then files in /usr will fragment > > when you update the system. > > Then you have to remount when you upgrade stuff, and that usually means > shutting down services in some cases. Extremely annoying hassle. mount -o remount,rw /usr > > As for fragmentation, don't worry about it. Good filesystems only > fragment if they are close to full, which also hurts their performance, > so as long as you don't run at like 90%+ of capacity fragmentation is > not something to worry about. > > > Also /usr can become damaged by writes to /var and crashes. If you > > have /usr read-only it can't get corrupted. > > That depends on the type of crash. If they are on the same disk nothing > is ever completely safe. > > -- > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it. " - George W. Bush 05/14/2001 Philadelphia, PA
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