On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 15:56:54 Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:43:33PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> This despite the FHS says (right at the top of Chapter 3, the Root
>
> Filesystem):
> /usr, /opt, and /var are designed such that they may be located on
> other partitions or filesystems.
>
> Do we *really* want to head this way, ignoring bugs resulting from
> having /usr on a different partition such as
>
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/#626007, which is what led to this?
What's the benefit in having /usr or /opt as separate filesystems?
another benefit (not yet mentioned) is for filesystem encryption. I have / and
/home encrypted and /usr not encrypted (for better performance of my laptop)