The case for the /usr merge
The case for the /usr merge
Posted Jan 27, 2012 1:53 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: The case for the /usr merge by josh
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge
Or a root filesystem on LVM, software RAID, or any other kind of complicated filesystem the bootloader can't understand. Although it looks as though GRUB2 is smart enough to get all those systems (including encrypted filesystems), so maybe separate /boot partitions are going to be as unnecessary as separate /bin, /sbin, and /lib directories.
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