symlink for /usr/

[Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, David J Patrick wrote:
> Is there a strong argument for doing it the right way ? editing fstab to
> point to mount /usr/ at another location ?

/usr is supposed to be on a separate file system.  It is safe to put it
on its own partition.  It should be safe to shuffle it to a partition
which you are using for something else, then symlink it.

IIRC, everything you need to boot is in /bin, /etc, /sbin, and maybe
/boot and /lib.  The rest of the system can pull itself up from there.

Byron.
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