Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:34:23PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > > Why split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same > drive? > > I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks to gain a little > bump > > in access speed. > > so if you decide to reinstall the OS clean you can run mkfs on / /usr > /var and any /tmps without losing locally compiled software and user > home directories (/home)
Another reason would be if you wanted to mount /usr read-only but not /usr/local. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
