Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Another plan for /usr and udev-181
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:37:39
Message-Id: 20120414073552.56116fb5@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Another plan for /usr and udev-181 by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:44:37 -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2
3 > What annoys me the most about this forced change is that I like the
4 > old unix style of a single minimal base partition for booting, and
5 > being able to manage all the other partitions while unmounted in
6 > single user mode. In my case, /usr is an LVM partition precisely
7 > because I want to sit in single user mode while resizing it (it seems
8 > to keep on growing ...).
9
10 It's been safe to increase the size of mounted filesystems for years. But
11 if you can enlarge /usr while using it, you can do the same for/. So if
12 that's your only reason for a separate /usr...
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 In a classified ad: "Tired of cleaning yourself? Let me do it."

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