On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create
> filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var
> and / (of course). This way you're more flexible
> and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running
> out of space on /).

But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while
one of the others has plenty free. I prefer to have these three on the
same partition for a desktop, but separate from /. I use the bind option
to mount /var and /opt on /usr/var and /usr/opt

$ grep bind /etc/fstab
/usr/var   /var   auto   bind   0 0
/usr/opt   /opt   auto   bind   0 0


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