>>>>> "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp> writes:
>> split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same
>> drive? > I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks
>> to gain a little bump > in access speed.
>>
>> so if you decide to reinstall the OS clean you can run mkfs on /
>> /usr /var and any /tmps without losing locally compiled software
>> and user home directories (/home)
OM> Another reason would be if you wanted to mount /usr read-only
OM> but not /usr/local.
OM>
Why would you want to mount /usr read-only ?
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