From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 14 16:36:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F130637B416 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:36:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4A90F786E3; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:06:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:06:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Perkin Cc: Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Merging / and /usr (was: Changing 'man' to check alternate destination for 'cat' pages) Message-ID: <20011215110649.J85108@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> <20011214150950.A12728@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011214150950.A12728@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 14 December 2001 at 15:09:50 +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > On Fri Dec 14, 2001 at 12:21:25AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> Someone else then mentioned that if /usr *is* a part of '/', then we >> don't have to statically-build all the binaries in /bin or /sbin. It >> was noted that this saves several megabytes in the size of the system, >> and that such savings are welcome in some situations (embedded systems, >> older machines, etc). > > As long as this isn't made the default. It's lovely to be free to be > able to rm -rf /usr/{bin|sbin|lib*} etc and still have all the tools > in /bin and /sbin available for recovery purposes. That's an interesting consideration, but it's not directly related to having /usr and / on the same file system. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message