[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:43:41AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 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/

In RHEL 5 the LVM tools required to boot the machine are in /sbin,
with the ones not required to boot being in /usr/sbin.

In RHEL 6, all the LVM tools are in /sbin.

I've just checked this, please don't make stuff up.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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