From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hlr5f-00060l-P0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 18:40:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49IdPFV014582; Wed, 9 May 2007 18:39:25 GMT Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49IYfJh009243 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 18:34:41 GMT Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FCA21F822 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 14:36:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 09 May 2007 14:34:42 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: MM4QemATtTjblX1NtpbRCU0ye6JRjlZp3Pl64Uq2u0a7 1178735682 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-76-185-203-114.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.203.114]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31820140D8 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 14:34:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200705091953.08629.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <4641FF41.7020000@exceedtech.net> <20070509182835.4c33a0f2@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200705091953.08629.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 13:34:39 -0500 Message-Id: <1178735679.19793.6.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e41793b-6c7e-411c-bf82-2326f6d2ae60 X-Archives-Hash: 34e665326fd9da25ee6b5522e35d15c3 On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:53 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? > And if so, why? Because if you've got a lab full of similarly-configured workstations or a forward-facing cluster of load-balancing servers, it may be more convenient to have them all mount /usr, /home, etc. from a centrally-managed file server. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list