[Mageia-dev] Please test: initscripts+systemd in updates_testing

Tue Nov 1 06:56:07 CET 2011

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:17:15 -0400, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+
+> What is the usable feature ?
+> To be able to put some kind of quota on /usr ?
+> To be able to use a different fs for / and /usr ?
+
+I once ran into the situation where installing a package
+succeeded, but caused the / filesystem usage to hit 100%.
+The next reboot failed, due to this.
+
+That was when I split everything I could off of the root
+filesystem, including /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr, and /var.
+I put all of those on lvm logical volumes (with the root
+filesystem still on a regular partition), and then split
+/var/log onto a regular partition so I could access it
+easily from a knoppix live dvd.
+
+I briefly had /boot on a separate regular partition, but
+found memtest86+ could not run with that setup, so I kept
+/boot in the / filesystem.
+
+I've since taken advantage of using lvm stripes to speed
+up access, which works quite well.
+
+In my current full install, I have 1.5GB allocated to the
+regular partition used for the root filesystem, with
+1022M used.  The /usr filesystem has 15GB used.
+
+Merging /usr into / would require a large amount of work,
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+