On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 07:24:48PM +0000, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> I would argue vdev belongs in / rather than /usr because it is likely to
> be necessary to mount filesystems and such.
>
> The split is somewhat arbitrary these days but historically things needed
> during the boot process and to repair the system have gone in / while less
> essential bits have gone into /usr
>
> People do still partition that way sometimes so it's a good idea not to
> break the system for them :)

My server has been running that way for years, with /usr containing
only things not needed during boot.

Isn't requiring /usr to hae been mounted for booting a systemd-ism?

-- hendrik