Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition
Date	2020-07-08 08:00 +0200
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On Mi, 08 iul 20, 02:35:09, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> On 8/7/20 2:11 am, Michael Stone wrote:
> > 
> > The short answer is that there simply isn't a good reason to do this 
> > on a modern system, and there is no volunteer to donate the enormous 
> > amount of effort required to make
> > something work for which there isn't a good justification for 
> > expending that effort. There should be no flamewar, if someone wants 
> > the situation to change they simply need to be
> > the person who puts in all the work.
> 
> Just doing dist-upgrade with a perfectly acceptable file system 
> previously is no reason why it should break.

Debian supports upgrading of most packages between releases.

It provides no guarantees about hardware, partitioning schemes, 
partition sizes, file systems, etc.

I was under the impression that LVM is used in particular for its 
flexibility in adjusting your partitions. What prevents you from merging 
'/' and '/usr'?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2020-07-07 17:00 +0200
  Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-07 18:10 +0200
    Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-07 18:30 +0200
      Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2020-07-07 19:00 +0200
        Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-08 02:00 +0200
        Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 08:00 +0200
          Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2020-07-08 10:30 +0200
            Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-08 15:30 +0200
            Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-08 16:40 +0200
          Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-08 10:40 +0200
            Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 10:20 +0200
              Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-09 11:20 +0200
                Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-09 16:40 +0200
                Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 18:20 +0200

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