Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop? -- LINUXDESKTOP4I

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Personally, I prefer to keep / and /usr on separate partitions. /usr
is
where all of your software packages are installed, and therefore is one
of the partitions that's most likely to get messed up.

When that happens, it's awfully nice to still be able to boot, and then
simply restore /usr from backup.

Not only that, when you have a hardware failure and want to restore to
another computer, it's nice to be able to just restore /usr with all of
the applications without needing to also restore / (which has all of
the
system-specific configurations on it, such as which hardware drivers
are enabled, what your network settings are, etc.)

That's just been my experience.

Good thinking, Scott! But I wonder what you do about other directories
(especially /etc) that are pretty much system-wide directories, but may have
stuff necessary for your /usr (or /opt) stuff?

Regards,
Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
"The problem with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
-- Franklin P. Jones

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