Re: RE: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes )

[Matthew Dillon]

:
:Poul-Henning Kamp wrote
:> It would make more sense, considering the way FreeBSD is distributed for
:> /usr/local to be a mountpoint than for /usr to be a mountpoint.
:>
:> /var is traditionally a mountpoint to keep the logs out of harms
:> way (and vice versa), but /usr never had that level of justification.
:>
:
:one idea about /usr is to allow the admin to mount it read-only.

    I tend to make /usr a separate mount point for one reason and one
    reason only:  So root (/) can be made a small partition (64-128M) and 
    thus be less likely to get corrupted beyond repair in a crash.

                                                -Matt



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