peter.winterflood wrote: > > there was a time (sunos 1990's for example) where mounting /usr on a > separate partition was normal. > > this might have been because disks at the time were too small to install > the whole operating system on one, so usr could be located on another > partition. > > this is also why we sometimes have a /usr/sbin and /sbin for example. so > theres the binaries needed for start up in /sbin, which would mount first. > > anyway i digress for reasons of providing some background. To further digress, it also meant /usr could be mounted (read-only) and shared between multiple clients over NFS ... thus saving precious hard disk space ... (those were the days!) James Pearson