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/ and separate partitions (was) Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space



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It was until fairly recently general practice to allocate a few hundred
MB to / if /usr and /var were separate. It's only in the last few years
that the size of /lib/modules has really exploded, and /usr now needs
(in practice) to physically live under /.
I once tried to put /lib/modules under it's own partition. Needless to say, it broke horribly and the system was unable to boot. Having said that, with >100GB disks common now, the fallacy that, just because you cannot have a sub 1G / filesystem, that you have to place /usr onto that partition, is annoying. In fact, the whole /usr merge to me is annoying. If we do not _need_ /usr, why have it in the first place? Why have this separate directory that you should no longer split off onto a separate partition? Just have everything in /

Iain


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