Bug#288409: please consider waiting before installing the base system
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under /mnt and
> not under / directly ?
That one is actually a relic from pre-LVM times when it was hard to
repartition, and partitions didn't have a useable label.
The advantage is that you can quite easily symlink disk space from one
of the mounted partitions somewhere else without having the borrowed
space show up in the file system tree where you won't expect it
(/usr/var, *yuck*), and that you can easily see what kind of
filesystem you have when it's not mounted where it belongs.
Greetings
Marc
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