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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:23:05
Message-Id: CAD6zcDyybc+xBBqUQ6aKGsP-ZZ+4ns=we536iv8whqL2hT5CJQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? by "Michał Górny"
1 2011/8/1 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>:
2 > On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:30:37 +0200
3 > Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 01.08.11 um 13:19 Uhr:
6 >> > Having /usr/portage on a different partition will still be
7 >> > supported if I understood correctly (at least, it still works fine
8 >> > for me even having the rest of /usr under / partition)
9 >>
10 >> yes. My point was, that if you have a separate /usr you may be ok
11 >> with no seperate /usr/portage
12 >
13 > Don't really think so. /usr/portage is a very specific fs, and it's
14 > better to always keep it separated. That's one thing which can be
15 > restored with a simple 'emerge --sync'.
16
17 everything about portage is very specific and should be separated, I
18 would like to see an addition of one root directory "gentoo" where
19 ${PKGMANAGER} keep all it's stuff.
20 Some of these are already moveable with ${*DIR} variables in
21 make.conf, others are not
22
23 20K /gentoo/tmp
24 20K /gentoo/overlays
25 639M /gentoo/portage
26 3.1G /gentoo/distfiles
27 4.1M /gentoo/var/log
28 36K /gentoo/var/lib/portage
29 43M /gentoo/var/db/pkg
30 940K /gentoo/var/cache/edb
31 2.7M /gentoo/packages

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>