On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:17:15 -0400, Michael Scherer <m...@zarb.org> wrote:
What is the usable feature ? To be able to put some kind of quota on /usr ? To be able to use a different fs for / and /usr ?
I once ran into the situation where installing a package succeeded, but caused the / filesystem usage to hit 100%. The next reboot failed, due to this. That was when I split everything I could off of the root filesystem, including /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr, and /var. I put all of those on lvm logical volumes (with the root filesystem still on a regular partition), and then split /var/log onto a regular partition so I could access it easily from a knoppix live dvd. I briefly had /boot on a separate regular partition, but found memtest86+ could not run with that setup, so I kept /boot in the / filesystem. I've since taken advantage of using lvm stripes to speed up access, which works quite well. In my current full install, I have 1.5GB allocated to the regular partition used for the root filesystem, with 1022M used. The /usr filesystem has 15GB used. Merging /usr into / would require a large amount of work, Regards, Dave Hodgins