Re: RHEL 5 : statically linked shell for root?

hike,

Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:05:20 -0400
From: hike <mh1272@xxxxxxxxx>
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
<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.

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

Yup. And given that all of Linux is < 10G for the o/s, in these days of cheap storage, it's not unreasonable. Also, the installs - when you're going up a full release, not just a subrelease, *alL* want to upgrade everything.
<snip>
By the way, I enjoy how you are always quoting/referring to article. You
must be quite proud of yourself. Funny though, you never

Well, yeah, I'm happy to have an article for which I was paid for publication: not much, but it's professional. And when it does cover stuff that's related to what we're talking about, why shouldn't I?

tell which issue
of Sysadmin your ariticle was in!

July 2007. I think the mag went under with the Sept. issue. (Not my fault! <g>)

mark

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