Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:39:47
Message-Id: 20130930233930.0a0b9614@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 by Mick
1 On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:05:29 +0100, Mick wrote:
2
3 > > > really? so when I moved PORTDIR to /var/portage I was ahead of the
4 > > > rest? Wow...
5 > >
6 > > You were ahead of me for sure :-)
7 > >
8 > > I clearly remember one day long long ago you ranted and raved about
9 > > how a huge chunk of /usr was write-often...
10 > >
11 > > ... so I fiddled with mine to make it work on /var too and was very
12 > > happy with it.
13 >
14 >
15 > There's no reason to move /usr/portage to / It can stay in your LVM.
16
17 This isn't about moving it to /, it's about moving it to /var, which is a
18 far more logical location for the portage tree. /usr is for static system
19 files, /var is for variable data.
20
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22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
26 I don't know and I don't care

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