On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> I know it's a pain on the first install or when you want to do a lot in
> single-user mode, but having only / mounted (and r/o at that) is a GOOD
> thing when something's sick on the disk.
> 
> I've taken to not doing split root and /usr anymore. ;-)
> 
	In case anyone doesn't know why a split root/usr can be a good
	idea - if something totally hoses your /usr partition you can
	still boot single user to fix things as all the binaries in
	/ are statically linked.

	From single user to edit a file 
	    With a single / & /usr you need to:
		fsck ; mount /
	    Will a separate / & usr you need to:
		fsck ; mount -va 

	Its not too much more work :)

	(I set the TERM variable in my /.profile to make things easier :)
	
		David/absolute

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