BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       Jim Diamond
Data:     Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:00:02 +1100
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On 2026-03-15 at 11:02 ADT, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> On 15/03/2026 13:25, druck wrote:
>> The whole separate partition thing was way back in the days of 
>> unreliable filing systems on small discs. It just isn't needed these 
>> days when you can just have everything on one large partition and not 
>> have to try and work out the high water mark needed for each part.

> Whilst that is true, there are newer reasons for partitioning..

> - You cant fill a root partition with user data if that is on a separate 
> partition.
> - You cant e.g. fill /var with e.g. MySQL data if that is on a separate 
> partition..

Yes, but that has nothing much to do with the OP's plan to put /usr on its
own partition.  He didn't indicate where /home was going, but if he puts it
on the root partition, he can still fill that up.  And if /var is on /root,
also problems.

Which is why I was curious about why he wants to a separate /usr partition.

Back in the good old days there were enough programs in /bin (which was an
actual directory, not a link to /usr/bin) to recover a system with disk
errors (when possible, anyway).  But now that /bin is a link, I wonder if
the system will even boot properly, since "user space" would have to mount
/usr before almost all (all?) programs are available.  Including systemd.

OP, where are you... ?

                                Jim

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