From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D6FD138334 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE1B9E08F0; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7886EE088A for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from whubbs1.gaikai.biz (unknown [100.42.103.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F23C034BDBF for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (nullmailer pid 29137 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06:27 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:06:27 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin' Message-ID: <20191016160627.GA29093@whubbs1.dev.av1.gaikai.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1bbad081be57654e20e590734ed8aa88dc6f6176.camel@gentoo.org> <20191012160228.GA2481@linux1.home> <25763900.3IMS5cSOPn@ernie> <86031cc11741c13b354ad85577a1e32c4ca97460.camel@gentoo.org> <0b3627cb08065b8d6d02a1d8826ab316ecdaccd0.camel@gentoo.org> <2b4de5d1-e5f3-1c9d-792f-0e64002d04e3@uls.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2b4de5d1-e5f3-1c9d-792f-0e64002d04e3@uls.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Archives-Salt: c7e89d92-a9b8-42a2-b5c6-66dfbf2f022f X-Archives-Hash: 9f4992f38881e3b495148abd0ed91271 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jaco, On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:18:38AM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: > Hi, =20 *snip* > For what it's worth.=A0 All of my systems are installed with a fixed-size > 512MB / with everything else (including /usr) on separate LVs. >=20 > Whilst sbin vs bin is just a matter of what's available, to me it makes > sense to keep these split.=A0 To me it's always been logical to keep > administrative type (root) tools under sbin, and stuff that's generally > useful for users under bin. =20 As I said in my previous message, sbin and /usr/sbin are supposed to have statically linked binaries in them, "s" means static not superuser. > Keeping / and /usr split (or the ability to keep it split) is rather > crucial for me.=A0 It's for historic installations a matter of space > constraints on /.=A0 For new installations it's a matter of keeping / as > small as possible in order to have a smallish bootable system which can > be used for recovering the rest of the system, ideally without an initrd > (which also works to an extent). Having / and /usr on separate filesystems is not what split-usr is about. split-usr just means that /bin /lib* and /sbin are directories not symlinks. =20 Splitting / and /usr to separate filesystems without an initramfs is not officially supported. William --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCXac//gAKCRBuVBb0MMRl OKzbAJ9CwGBekgcGDmm6OMDxfvQG7U5HmQCgtHjd9pCVkj973vKPjVin4DlIQZE= =CrB2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--