[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:38:35PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> --------
> 
> Nix writes:
> 
> >Quite so. It's not as if libatasmart is so monstrously huge that it
> >can't live in /lib:
> >
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114890 2009-11-06 13:18 /lib/libatasmart.so.4.0.3
> >
> >Why the choice was taken to rip separate /usr out rather than simply
> >migrating libatasmart into /lib, I have no clue, but it seems bloody
> >stupid to me.
> 
> In this case, yes. But the argument is that there are other things
> that require migrating out of /usr. One example given was a system
> with encrypted storage. Either you're restricted to an ASCII superset
> for the password, or you need to have i18n keyboard config in the
> root fs in order to enter the decryption password.
> 
> 	leto:~% du -sh /usr/share/X11/xkb
> 	3.0M    /usr/share/X11/xkb
> 
> Hmmm. That's starting to get less than trivial to migrate to the
> root filesystem. I kind of see their point. I just think they should
> have had a proper discussion with the affected parties to look at
> possible solutions, rather than just decide you can't have /usr on
> a separate filesystem any more. Maybe the outcome would be the same.
> But without the discussion, we won't know.

All the locales are in /usr too, so you're only going to get English
language messages.

Lennart looked into this issue methodically and reports that it's
pretty bad:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-October/144479.html

Rich.

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