Re: rootfs

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Freitag, 19. April 2013 schrieb Kevin Chadwick:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space
> > > on rootfs but can't guess how...
> > > Here follows the filesystem, any hints?
> > > 
> > > regrds
> > > /r
> > > 
> > > debian:~# df -h
> > > File system             Dim. Usati Dispon. Uso% Montato su
> > > rootfs                  322M  213M     93M  70% /
> > > /dev/mapper/debian-usr   4,6G  1,2G    3,2G  28% /usr
> > 
> > There's no real need to have /usr separate from /
> > If you did, you would have gigabytes of free space to play with.
> > 
> > You could potentially merge the two.
> 
> Unless you follow the installer, best practice and the Filesystem
> Hiearchical Standard then no not at all.
> 
> Don't believe opinion as fact just because it's on a server hosted by
> freedesktop.org. Rusty Russel and the FHS is a more authoritative (and
> correct) source, I suggest you read it.

I never split up / and /usr for the last century or so and they are all 
working fine.

Fedora even unified /bin and /usr/bin as well as /sbin and /usr/sbin.

This is all not written in stone and people can and do have different 
opinions about that.

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