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Hi Dale, |
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I would like to call your attention to a couple of things in my message. |
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 01:40:10PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> William Hubbs wrote: |
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*snip* |
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> > I want to hear from people who have / and /usr on separate partitions |
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> > and who are not using an initramfs. |
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> > If you are in this group, I have a very specific question. Why aren't |
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> > you using an initramfs? |
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*snip* |
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> I have a separate /usr among others and always have. The reason I do |
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> that, /boot and / are normal partitions but everything else is LVM. I |
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> can adjust the size of everything BUT /boot and /. At the time I did |
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> that, the init thingy was not needed if I recall correctly. I might |
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> add, I've had to grow /usr and /var a couple times. Before LVM, it |
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> meant copying over to another drive, repartitioning and then restoring |
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> to the old drive. Time consuming and one wrong command could ruin a |
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> install. |
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> While I have a init thingy, I do not like it. I've had a couple |
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> failures already with those things. Luckily I keep older kernels and |
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> such for that. If I had my wish, I would not need a init thingy, ever. |
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> It's just one more thing that can cause problems. There's already more |
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> than enough things that can break. While I understand the problem comes |
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> from upstream, I still think it sucks. It's easy enough to have a |
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> unbootable kernel as it is. Adding another layer for booting to fail |
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> should be avoided. BTW, I use dracut. I tried to build it other ways |
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> but couldn't get it to work. Bad thing is, when one fails even built |
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> with dracut, I have no clue how it works really so no idea how to fix |
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> other than using a older kernel or just rerunning dracut and hoping for |
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> the best. |
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You just stated that you have an initramfs, so you did not thoroughly |
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read my message. I specifically asked to hear from folks who aren't |
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using one. All of this is irrelivent since you are. |
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> I'm also not looking forward to the other situation you mentioned |
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> either. At some point, having separate partitions won't be easy with or |
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> without a init thingy. I can't easily resize / without reworking the |
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> whole thing. |
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Like I said above, separate partitions without an initramfs has been |
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broken for many years. We have been doing some downstream hacking that |
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made it work for some people. You are obviously not one of those people |
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since you use an initramfs. |
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Can you please not add irrelivent noise to this thread? |
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William |
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