[UFO Chicago] Re: Brian's Conversion from FreeBSD to Debian and Questions on X

[Jesse Becker]

--- jordanb at hafd.org wrote:
> Brian Sobolak said:
> > what about /bin vs /usr/bin?
> 
> /bin consists of stuff that you need in the event of a
> boot failure where partitions fail to mount. /bin must be
> on the root partition.

In theory....

> /usr/bin are all those tools that are not essential and
can
> be put on a separate partition.

...except when they can't be put on other partitions
because the binaries are linked against stuff in /usr/lib.

This bit me once, and never again will /usr be seperate
from /.  Most distributions are better about this, but
still not perfect.  Run this snippet, and tell me if you
want to split /usr and /.

  for f in /bin/* /sbin/* ; do ldd $f |  grep -q usr; if [
"$?" -eq 0 ]; then echo $f: ; ldd $f ; fi; done



Jesse Becker
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