Linda Walsh said the following on 04/11/2013 09:59 PM:
Also, it's not just about / and /usr, but also /usr/share --- at least a few current booting progs make use of it,
Would you care to be more specific - tell us exactly what those are and where they occur in the boot sequence, please.
and the same arguments used for /usr can be used for /usr/share (where do you load your fonts from?)
I happily have my /usr/share as a NFS supplied by a 'headless server'. Of course your mileage may vary; you may have your fonts supplied by the font server - xfs. The point being that this is not needed until the X server starts up. You may term that part of the boot sequence, but its not part of what the initrd does for the rest of us. It, like the DNS server; like Postfix; like the cron, ssh, and cups daemons, are all user space and all come later. If you mean the fonts for grub and what scrolls before init runs the rc files or systemd runs, then of course that won't be on /usr/share! Perhaps you need to qualify what fonts you are talking about and when they are being accessed.
My /usr/share is a 3rd partition that is located on a 4th, /home, which requires lvm & udev...
On my (headless) server everything except /boot is on lvm. On this workstation everything, including /boot, is on the single, all encompasing - well everty8tg except the stuff under /home and /usr/share and those ramfs - BtrFS. -- When languishing for solutions, don't ask "Have I got the correct answer?" The correct question is "Have I got the correct question?" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org