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On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 09:57:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: |
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> > Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: |
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> > >> It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: |
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> > >> |
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> > >> "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper |
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> > >> initramfs in the handbook?" |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I think it will apply to /var to at some point. I think it |
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> > >> sucks. I have /var on a separate partition and want to put |
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> > >> /usr on one to but not now. |
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> > > |
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> > > Eh? That's fucking braindead. It also violates everything udev |
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> > > ever intended to do. |
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> > > |
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> > > /usr and /var on separate partitions, plus a custom kernel |
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> > > without an initramfs is *exactly* the most common use case for |
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> > > Gentoo.... |
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> > I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on |
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> > its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. |
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> > Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It |
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> > downright sucks. |
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> > |
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> > You planning to explain this to the devs? Maybe you will have |
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> > better luck. They said it is a dev from Fedora that started this . |
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> > . . . crap. ;-) |
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> I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. |
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The very reason I use Gentoo is BECAUSE I don't like RHL. :( |
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I still have to use CentOS on a server and curse every time it won't work like |
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Gentoo. Can't they just leave us alone? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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