[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Wed Oct 20 16:49:54 UTC 2010


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.

-- 
Bruce

It is impolite to tell a man who is carrying you on his shoulders that
his head smells.
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