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Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning



Le samedi 17 décembre 2011 à 17:42 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : 
> I do recommend a separate /usr to anyone. It's *not* safe to say that,
> and I know many people that agree with me. To me, it has, and still is,
> the best choice. You have no rights to arbitrary decide what should
> be/was/will be the recommended configuration. Your choice is not more
> valid than mine, and (computer) science isn't about majorities anyway.

True. But the fact that you are in minority doesn’t necessarily mean you
are right, either.

> Doing this has many advantage. Like, if your laptop has to unexpectedly
> reboot (like when you inadvertently removed power cord when batteries
> were not plugged, which happens often in real life), having separated
> partitions usually makes the fsck faster.

This is complete bullshit. With a journaled filesystem, the boot time
will greatly increase with the number of filesystems to check. If no
files were modified in /usr, they won’t be mentioned in the journal, and
that’s all. But having one journal to parse for all the system is
definitely a measurable improvement.

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