Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:31:06PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>
> yaro wrote:
> > Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little benefit.
>
> It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a
> problem). It only complicates boot due to the practice of putting stuff
> that belongs under / under /usr.
Nowadays you can just have / readonly so /usr doesn't need to kept
separate.
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