Roger Leigh wrote: > The question that needs answering is this: > > "what are the reasons, today, for a separate /usr?"
No, I don't think an answer to that precise question today would be especially helpful. As far as I can tell, it is not especially unsensible to use separate partitions for /usr, /etc, /var, /boot, and /opt. And whether it is sensible or not, unless you have a tool in mind that will automatically change the partitioning scheme of a running system, that's not going to help udev or crda very much. An obvious question to answer to help these programs is whether it makes sense to make /usr a separate partition and not mount it before starting init. An even more obvious question is "where is the patch for initramfs-tools?". ;-) [...] > The same argument applies to encryption. / and /usr both contain a > selection of programs, libraries etc. If you're encrypting one, why > would you not encrypt all of it? And the same for mounting read-only. Regarding mounting read-only: files in /etc change far more often than files in /usr/bin, for one thing. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org