Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:42:31AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > - / can't be on lvm, raid0, raid5, reiserfs, xfs without causing
> > problems for /boot.
>
> Why is that?
Missing bootloader support.
> > - a larger FS has more chance of failing so you risk having a fully
> > broken system more often
>
> And two file systems have even more chance. One read only file system is
> pretty stable.
Sure, that's why I have /usr mounted read-only.
> > - /usr can be easily network (shared accross the same arch) mounted
> > while / (due to /etc) can't
> > - / needs functioning device nodes on it while usr can be mounted nodev
>
> I agreee, those arguments and the netboot stuff is an argment for a smaller
> root partition. However our root filesystem is too big anyway.
That's true:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 99M 75M 19M 80% /
[...]
$ du -sh /etc/gconf
26M /etc/gconf
That's 1/3 of my root fs. It's damn too much.
Gabor
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