Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:06:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, 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> In-Reply-To: <20011214150950.A12728@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> References: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <p0510100bb83ddfa9e683@[128.113.24.47]> <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> <p05101006b83f343ebb2d@[128.113.24.47]> <20011214150950.A12728@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk>
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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
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