Le 09/11/2025 à 10:11, Steve Litt a écrit :
> o1bigtenor via Dng said on Sat, 8 Nov 2025 13:40:12 -0600
>
>> Is usrmerge a step on the way to having only two partitions
>> (ie / and /home)?
> The only three partitions I'd recommend are swap, /, and /boot. Why in
> the world would anybody want to make little fixed-size partitions, in
> today's world of huge disks?
>
> I have an NVMe / partition, /usr, /lib, etc directly on the /, and
> things like /home and my various data partitions bind-mounted to a
> spinning rust. Rubber walled directories.
>
    Hey Steve.

    Why would you need /boot for? It's just a burden to always make
sure it has enough room left before you install a new kernel+initrd
version (upgrade linux image), otherwise, your system might go to a very
bad state. The only reason I can see is when Grub doesn't handle the
filesystem you have chosen for /.

    Certainly /home should always be on a separate partition, even
better a separate disk, even better a RAID only for it, depending on
possibilities. On my desktop I have a RAID1 made of a rust disk and an
SSD for /home. Unfortunately laptops do not offer such possibilities.

--     Didier