[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[- Tethys]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> 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)

See my previous claim that Fedora is headed towards an OS that caters
for the common usage patterns at the expense of those that do things
slightly differently. It really does work at the moment, and has done
since the inception of Fedora. It only doesn't work for things that I
don't use, and don't want to use. But that's deemed sufficient reason
to prevent me from running the system the way I want (and have always
done).

> 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.

Partially. I can't seem to get read-only bind mounts working from
fstab. If I explicitly invoke mount with the appropriate options
from the command line it works. If I do it through fstab, it claims
it "seems to be mounted read-write". Well yes. It is. That's what
I'm trying to change, which is why I specified "ro" in the fstab.

Tet

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