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 1S9EZa-0001wI-TZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:46:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5D32E0C07; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C86E0BDB for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563021B4025 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:44:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.212 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.212 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.202, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K1n15KoRALGt for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8BC31B4022 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S9EXY-0002lG-65 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:44:48 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-186-216.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.186.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:44:48 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-186-216.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:44:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:44:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <1799394.mohVsQjc44@localhost> <4F64E892.2080207@coolmail.se> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-186-216.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: <4F64E892.2080207@coolmail.se> X-Archives-Salt: 25af2100-8b35-4b6e-a4bb-62454d6b5ec4 X-Archives-Hash: d5b107be2f5da2c822762439a20d1072 On 03/17/2012 12:40 PM, pk wrote: > On 2012-03-17 19:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don't see any >> reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empty. So what? Put >> everything on one partition and go on. > > Yes, let's do away with partitions altogether, who needs them? When I was in school the (Winchester) disk drives were the size of a hotel mini-bar and the, um, "diskettes" the size of a stack of four or five large pizza boxes which had to be carried with both hands. I never asked how much these toys cost, but I'm guessing it would be roughly a year's salary for most people. Now multiply that by the number of partitions you need to mount simultaneously. That was the reason for separate / and /usr back then -- the school didn't want to buy multiple Winchesters when they could get the sysadmin to swap multiple "diskettes" during bootup, and let the student health service cover the cost of his hernia repair :p