Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:56:13PM +0100, lee wrote:
There`s nothing weird or exotic about it. I`ve always had /usr on its own partition until the F17 installer refused that, which it shouldn`t have.
I'm sorry but the installer denying /usr on its own partition on F17 is the right thing to do. I believe F17 introduced something called usr-move, meaning all the binaries in /bin /sbin are actually hardlinks/symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. I believe this was a multi-distribution effort. In such a configuration, there is no justification or gain of putting it in a separate partition, on top of that the booting process becomes quite complicated.
/usr belongs on it`s own partition. And last time I looked, it would not be compliant with the FHS not to have what is needed in /bin and /sbin but to use symlinks instead.