On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 13:59 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Thursday, August 09, 2012 23:54:47 Robin Klitscher wrote:
For many years I've been running successive versions of openSUSE with a /usr partition separate from the root partition /. But I see that the Fedora manuals insist that the practice of separating these two filesystems can lead to dire results. I note, too, that there was a problem with this in the early drops oS 12.2 Is there a problem here, or a potential problem, in openSUSE? Or can I continue to separate these two filesystems with confidence? WE have put measures into place so that you can continue to use /usr as a separate partition. On the other hand, going forward I suggest to not setup a separate /usr anymore, there's no benefit in it.
+1 I make a separate /boot, sometimes a separate /tmp, often a separate /var/spool and /var/lib [depending on the purpose of the box]. /srv and /home are always separate. I don't see any upside to a separate /usr [or /lib|/lib64 or /sbin or /var] - that really is just part-of-the-operating-system | base-install.