From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R1R2x-0003rw-5k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:56:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9BE221C1D4; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 22:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E533921C190 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 22:55:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24447804FD for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:55:03 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:54:57 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Message-ID: <20110907235457.691be720@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110907050952.GA2588@linux1> <4E66FFFA.2020600@gmail.com> <201109071923.39954.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs16 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/ZP+8_h__1Xj.i0=BlfYJH/Q"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1abeeac6f706acbebfb5db6a644b4cc0 --Sig_/ZP+8_h__1Xj.i0=BlfYJH/Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote: > After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't > understand the benefits of a separated /usr. Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage, allowing /usr to be resized should the need arise. > Mounting it read-only > seems the only sensible one, and then I think is better to go all the > way and mount / read-only. Putting /etc on a read-only filesystem seems a really bad idea. --=20 Neil Bothwick Q: What's the proper plural of a 'Net-connected Windows machine? A: A Botnet --Sig_/ZP+8_h__1Xj.i0=BlfYJH/Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5n9kYACgkQum4al0N1GQON+ACfbhAqVy32fpfKGKst/UOltIhC LDEAnR4tQhYP9H88WpzsSepA9Q9MsnUn =BGGN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ZP+8_h__1Xj.i0=BlfYJH/Q--