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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] My thoughts on usr merge
On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 11:13:16AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> Probably it can work when "/usr" is mounted in initramfs. But as I never
> found the utility to have a separate "/usr" on any of my own systems (and
> neither on any servers I administrated for my employer and their
> customers) as well has having had to deal with the outcome of very fine
> grained partitioning as in /usr being separate and too small.


I found a separate /usr convenient long ago. My / partition,
which contained /usr, had run out of space and there were other partitios
beside it, so I couldn't just expand it.

The simplist thing wasto put /usr elsewhere on the disk.

This whole situation is obsolete now that we have a logical voluume
manager, but /usr is still separate for historical reasons.

I have no reason now to keep it separate (it works), but ther users
will have their own issues.

I will put /usr beck on / when I have some spare time,
to avoid Debian-made problems later.

-- hendrik