Re: RHEL 5 : statically linked shell for root?

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote:

hike wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Rubens Gomes <rubens_gomes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
<snip>
My question is. "Why do you make a separate mount point for /usr?".

In the old days of UNIX/SunOS, the hard drives were small and we were
forced
to have separate mount points for /, /var, /usr, /opt, /usr/openwin for
SunOS, /home. This and the possibility of actually filling a filesystem
to
100% were the only real reasons for separating the filesystems that I was
ever given.
<snip>
As I said in the article I published in SysAdmin last year (before it went
under) on upgrading Linux, you want that so that when you do an upgrade,
you
can rename it, then have a new partition for /usr, and let the install
format
that. That way, a) it's a "clean install", and b) you can fall back with a
few
renames in single user mode.

mark

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Mark,

You just need space for another filesystem if you want to do what you
indicate what the article says and do not, necessarily, need to separate
your filesystems. (Why make things more difficult when they have gone to
all the trouble to simplify our work lives. AND, that's why we do backups.)

By the way, I enjoy how you are always quoting/referring to article. You
must be quite proud of yourself. Funny though, you never tell which issue
of Sysadmin your ariticle was in!

LOL
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