On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:44:37 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:

> What annoys me the most about this forced change is that I like the
> old unix style of a single minimal base partition for booting, and
> being able to manage all the other partitions while unmounted in
> single user mode.  In my case, /usr is an LVM partition precisely
> because I want to sit in single user mode while resizing it (it seems
> to keep on growing ...). 

It's been safe to increase the size of mounted filesystems for years. But
if you can enlarge /usr while using it, you can do the same for/. So if
that's your only reason for a separate /usr...


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Neil Bothwick

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