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Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:47:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:49:38AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>>>> I am concerned about /var being included in this because of the |
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>>>> potential of filling up the root partition. |
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>>> Err, I don't follow. How does mounting /var fill up the root partition? |
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>> If you take /var off its own partition and put it on /, then it will |
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>> fill up / instead of /var. Filling up /var, not the end of the world. |
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>> Filling up / is a bad thing. |
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> [snip] |
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> That is clear, but entirely irrelevant to my question. I _explicitly_ |
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> support /var on a partition, that's why my entire initramfs proposal |
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> included it. |
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> I want to know what William had _against_ the mounting /var in my |
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> proposal, because that is what his statement implied. |
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For the record, I think /usr should work on a separate partition as |
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well. One reason, I would like to use LVM on all but my / file system. |
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This is something I been fiddling with for a while. Thing is, if /usr |
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has to be on / then there is no point in me using LVM at all. I don't |
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want / on a LVM because that requires some sort of init* to work. That |
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is what I am trying to avoid. |
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My opinion, this is going to lead to one heck of a mess. If it is |
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coming from upstream, which it appears to be, then there needs to be |
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someone to point the finger at. I read somewhere it is because of |
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Fedora so that helps some. It's still going to be a mess. My gut sees |
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it coming. I can already see where it is going to alter my plans hugely |
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and I'm a desktop user. I can't imagine a server or some complicated |
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setup. That is the ones I feel sorry for the most. If they are not |
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using some init* thing already, they appear to be needing one soon. |
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It's just one more thing to have to deal with and worry about breaking. |
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Just my $0.02 worth and that ain't much. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |