[systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at err.no
Thu Mar 3 08:58:39 PST 2011


]] Lennart Poettering 

| > To boot a system, enough must be present on the root partition to
| > mount other filesystems. This includes utilities, configuration,
| > boot loader information, and other essential start-up data. /usr,
| > /opt, and /var are designed such that they may be located on other
| > partitions or filesystems.
| 
| Well, turns out no distro really follows the spec here, do they?

Given the number of Debian people I see running with separate /usr, I
believe it works just fine there and while it's a supported
configuration I'll patch the warning out of the Debian systemd packages,
at least.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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