On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote: > On 06/29/2012 11:17 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: >> Any good references as to WHY?! they want to break this decades old convention? > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge > > All of the reasons you'd put /usr on a separate partition from / were > resolved decades ago. There's no reason to do that, and a long list of > reasons not to. Umm, yeah... Nobody would ever want to boot from small alternate media devices in these days of 3TB drives.... I suppose most of what /bin was supposed to hold and the reasons for putting it there have been usurped by the initrd that is normally required to boot linux, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com