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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:31:06 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500 |
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> > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> >>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
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> >>> wrote: <SNIP> |
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> >>> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either |
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> >>>> switch to another distro |
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> >>> <SNIP> |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Just remember, with distros it's the device you know for the devil |
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> >>> you don't know... |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I don't understand why any of this /usr /udev stuff is bothering |
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> >>> you. Do you really use a separate /usr? Aren't you on stable like |
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> >>> me or are you on ~amd64? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Good luck. I'm positive you'll come to your senses about this |
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> >>> Ubuntu nonsense! ;-))) |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Cheers, |
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> >>> Mark |
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> >>> |
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> >> |
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> >> My plan was to put / on ext4, /boot on ext2 and everything else on |
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> >> LVM. That would incluse /usr, /usr/portage, /var and /home. I have |
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> >> not done that yet because doing it would force me to make a choice |
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> >> very soon since this mess is coming pretty soon. |
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> > That's easy to fix. It takes a while and it's mind-numbingly boring, |
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> > but it's easy. |
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> > All you need is a decent amount of free disk space as you will |
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> > shuffle things around just like in that 15 pieces game. |
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> > Assuming / is the first (or second) partition on a disk: |
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> > Measure how much data is on the file system. |
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> > Measure how much data is on the /usr file system. |
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> > Move partitions after / on the disk out of the way creating enough |
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> > free space to contain current / and /usr. |
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> > Enlarge / partition, enlarge the file system on it, copy contents |
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> > of /usr there. |
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> > Arrange the rest of your disk the way you want it (either with or |
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> > without LVM, both are easy enough to do). |
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> > Move the rest of your data back to it's final destination. |
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> > Delete any last remnants of the old /usr partition. |
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> > And all your worries about initramfs will go away. Trust me (no, not |
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> > because I sell used cars, but because I do this for a living and |
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> > have done it several times) |
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> Right now, I doubt my current / partition can hold all the /usr stuff. |
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> It would require a complete undoing then redoing, like you just laid |
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> out. I have done this before but I would like to only have to do it |
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> once and be done. That is why I want to use LVM for everything but / |
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> but if I could get this to work right, I wouldn't mind having / on LVM |
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> too. |
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/ on LVM isn't all that useful, simply because it's size doesn't change |
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much and there's no real need to grow it. It's not like /var. |
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Binary distros put LVm on / not because it's a good idea but because |
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they like to have consistency. You don't need that because you know |
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what you built and it doesn't need to be supported by a corporate |
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employee far away. |
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You are worrying yourself needlessly about this init thing. |
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Just take some small measures to ensure that it will never be a factor. |
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> Right now, I have very little confidence in this init thingy and me |
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> getting it to work much less able to fix it even it doesn't boot for |
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> some reason. |
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> < sighs > |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |