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On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about "Re:
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[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot":
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[snip]
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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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I have also been following the discussion on gentoo-dev, although I
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currently only lurk there. I was going to register and post with a
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suggestion that everything should be on the root partition; that way we
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could rename it C: and be compliant with the "industry standard".
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However, it gets worse: one cannot safely fsck a partition or logical
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volume once it has been mounted. As things currently stand, there are
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no statically linked fsck modules for ext2/3/4, as static linkage was
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dropped from e2fsprogs about 3 years ago. This means for fsck to run
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inside an initramfs or intrd, the image will have to contain glibc,
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libpthread and a whole slew of other large libraries in order to run
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e2fsck with dynamic linkage. The initramfs will end up being *many*
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times larger than the kernel itself. [On my systems, the vmlinuz file
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is only about 1.8 megs, and glibc alone makes that look really puny.]
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Welcome to progress.
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- --
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Regards,
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Dave [RLU #314465]
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon)
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