On 08/09/2012 09:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
On 2012-08-09 21:02, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
;)
It's interesting that in this thread - if I didn't miss anything - many people told why having separate partitions are useful. I agree with that. I just don't remember seeing a use case why a separate /usr is beneficial.
No?
Go fetch those paper books you included with SuSE Professional not that long ago. A separate /usr was recommended there.
historical ;) - see below ;)
Yes, people do it - and openSUSE continues to support it - but the only
reasons I'm aware of are historical like [1].
So, what is the reason to create a separate /usr with openSUSE 12.2? Please educate me ;)
Spreading the system over several hard disks, speeding filesystem access.
/usr is so tiny compared to the size of disks that I do not see that as an advantage *today*, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org