Changeset d7a9421 for chapter02/creatingpartition.xml

Timestamp:

05/12/2021 04:24:11 AM (3 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

5ed37b3, c034573, df462a9

Parents:

0f7d4cb

Message:

Merge Xi's changes into trunk
Update to meson-0.58.0
Update to systemd-248
Update to gcc-11.1.0
Update to linux-5.12.1
Update to iproute2-5.12.0
Update to Python-3.9.5
Make /bin, /sbin, and /lib symlinks to their counterparts in /usr.
Thanks again for a significant portion of this work goes to Xi, I only
really merged it and made a couple of modifications for my updates. To
LFS 11.x we go!

File:

• chapter02/creatingpartition.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter02/creatingpartition.xml

@@ -142 +142 @@
       space.</para></listitem>
 
-      <listitem><para>/usr &ndash; A separate /usr partition is generally used
-      if providing a server for a thin client or diskless workstation.  It is
-      normally not needed for LFS.  A size of ten gigabytes will handle most
-      installations.</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>/usr &ndash; In LFS,
+      <filename class="directory">/bin</filename>,
+      <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and
+      <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename> are symlinks to their
+      counterpart in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>.
+      So <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> contains all binaries
+      needed for the system to run.  For LFS a separate partition for
+      <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> is normally not needed.
+      If you need it anyway, you should make a partition large enough to
+      fit all programs and libraries in the system.  The root partition can be
+      very small (maybe just one gigabyte) in this configuration, so it's
+      suitable for a thin client or diskless workstation (where
+      <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> is mounted from a remote
+      server).  However you should take care that an initramfs (not covered by
+      LFS) will be needed to boot a system with separate
+      <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> partition.</para></listitem>
 
       <listitem><para>/opt &ndash; This directory is most useful for