bin, sbin, etc as seperate LVM volumes 669

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 05:41, Floyd L. Davidson stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

One that's writable for normal operation while the rest of the root filesystem is mounted read-only, and one for when the root filesystem is the only one mounted, in which case it will be a maintenance job and you will want it mounted read-write anyway. ;-)

Then just copy your environment files over as well. It's not like there will be too many of those anyway.

So that the root user still has a home when the root filesystem is the only one mounted. That's why I propose having a separate copy of *-root* for during normal operation with a read-only root filesystem.

In practice, this varies from distribution to distribution. However, if the distribution installs nothing into *-usr-local,* then it's pointless making *-usr-local* a separate filesystem *unless* you intend on installing software from sources for use on the local machine.

If the OP is a newbie - and most likely, he is - then he will probably not foray into compiling, or into developing software.

Then your impression is wrong. ;-)

Exactly. Hence my statement that making *-usr-local* a separate filesystem is only needed for those who wish to make use of it for their software development.

Well, he's free now to apply it wherever it was that he learned it. We found him guilty of negligence, betrayal and sabotage, and we fired him on the spot. ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)