"R. Armiento" <reply-debian-05@armiento.net> writes: > The reason to put /usr on an own partition would be that IF the > semi-frequent changes of this partition somehow would screw up the > filesystem, you could still bring your system up in a semi-useful state > using only / and repair things. IMHO, the main reason for having /usr on a separate partition is that it can be mounted read-only. Martin