Reply to post: Re: only thing I ask

Debian putting everything on the /usr

Dr. Mouse

Re: only thing I ask

I have to say, I'm with all those who want /s?bin kept separate from /usr.

I have seen my fair share of disk corruption of one form or another. Having the essential utilities on the root partition while the rest reside on a different one makes sense. It keeps a "root-only" bootable and usable system available even if the rest of the partitions are corrupted, and gives a chance to recover the system without resorting to booting from CD/USB (I'm sure I'm not the only one who has spent ages hunting for a "rescue" disk to recover a botched system).

Although if people here are correct and systemd has screwed this path up, I guess the change makes little difference....

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