[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:19:16PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:49:54PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:00:01PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > > 
> > > To be fair, the claim is that it doesn't really work at the moment
> > > (too many dependencies on /usr from early init programs), and that you
> > > can easily get the benefits of read-only-/usr using the bind-mount
> > > commands mentioned in that thread.  I don't have any opinion on
> > > whether either of those is true.
> > 
> > It's certainly true that Fedora *and* RHEL put things into /usr/sbin
> > which other distributions put into /sbin (e.g. the LVM utilities), which
> > would cause problems.
> 
> The LVM utilities are in /sbin on Fedora.

Heh, then RHEL is ahead of the lunacy curve on that one, having moved
them to /usr/sbin/

-- 
Bruce

Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
everything you did to them on the way up.
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