On 2009-07-22 10:02, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <[🔎] 4A665BF5.2090505@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:On 2009-07-21 11:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:In <[🔎] 4A655762.6020602@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and /usr/local into their own partitions./usr is managed by the distribution I have installed currently. /usr/local is managed by me, and moves with me when I change distributions, like /home.I just back it and then restore to new system... ;)I don't have to wait for data to transfer or put additional stress on the hardware with reads/writes. My /usr/local is < 1GiB, so it doesn't matter much. /home stays much bigger, though.
We all have our own ways, huh...I keep /home small ("only" 35MiB), and throw the large files, which can mostly be shared with others on the box or LAN in an LV /data/big/share.
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