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

Wed Nov 2 03:49:02 CET 2011

On Wednesday 02 November 2011 01:05, andre999 wrote:
+> No offense intended
+
+None detected. ;-)=
+
+> but you don't see a slight advantage of not having  
+> to mount a separate partition, and of sharing the space available on the 
+> otherwise 2 separate partitions, particularly if the disk space is 
+> somewhat limited ?
+
+If the diskspace is limited, there often is no available space to host a separate /usr.
+The old drive in my gateway was a 4G drive. There was One partition. ;-)=
+I do see the need to have all in one partition in many cases.
+
+But there is a diffenrece in having a need and require it. :-)=
+
+> Since you have read the reference, you didn't notice that the option of 
+> separate partitions is _not_ precluded ?
+
+Some of the answers I got here suggested otherwize. if /usr needs to be mounted in order for the system to boot normally. Then have systemd mount it.
+I do see that there might be some problems involved in solving it.
+
+> However if one has / and /usr on the same partition, combining /bin, 
+> /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin would certainly be a lot simpler than it 
+> is now.
+
+Yes. I see that, and I see that it can be agood idea to merge /*bin with /usr/*bin
+
+> I never could understand why the complication of separate /bin and /sbin, 
+
+I still feel that the daemon's executeable's belongs in sbin rather than bin.
+
+> and never appreciated the gymnastics of different commands with  
+> the same name to handle root/non-root permissions for certain commands.
+
+I haven't noticed that. do you have an example?
+
+> To me, avoiding unnecessary complication by design is a big plus.
+
+Agreed. But don't throw the baby out with the water. ;-)=
+
+-- 
+Johnny A. Solbu
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