Craig and Christian,
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, or FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/)
helps decide what can be mounted on a different filesystem. Some
excerpts from the 2.2 standard:
"/bin contains commands that ...are required when no other filesystems
are mounted (e.g. in single user mode)."
"/sbin contains binaries essential for booting, restoring, recovering,
and/or repairing the system in addition to the binaries in /bin."
The FHS also encourages small root partitions, which would seem to imply
that it's a good idea to give /usr a seperate partition. IMHO, in
virtually all cases, /var should definately be in its own partition,
since otherwise you risk filling the root partition with log messages,
etc.
--Rich
Craig Dickson wrote:
(snip)
> > - Getting it right for the boot process (should I make / reiser or
> > ext2?): I assume I need to have /etc, /bin and /sbin on the root
> > partition. What about /usr?
>
> It's never occurred to me to put /etc, /bin, or /sbin on any filesystem
> other than the root. I would guess that that would not be a good idea,
> since the boot process might (?) need access to them before it gets
> around to mounting all the default filesystems (for one thing, the mount
> command itself lives in /bin), but I'm not really sure.
>
> /usr can certainly be a separate filesystem, though I've never done so
> except when I wanted it to be on a separate hard disk from the root.
> Typically, I leave /usr in the root filesystem, though /usr/local or
> /usr/share might be separate.
>
>
> Craig
>
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