Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Konstantin Ryabitsev icon at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 17 00:34:50 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>> This scheme makes a significant difference for things like starting up
>> eclipse or OO.org on an underpowered laptop (or, really, any laptop
>> under battery power). Since portables is where FS encryption most
>> useful, getting rid of /usr will make it significantly more difficult
>> for me to conserve power and not waste it on needlessly
>> encrypting/decrypting binaries.
>
> It would make more sense to make /home an encrypted partition and
> leave / unencrypted.

Not really -- I want to also encrypt stuff in /etc, /tmp and in /var
(configs, temp files, and app state data).

-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Montréal, Québec




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