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From: Remy Blank <remy.blank@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:20:14
Message-Id: fbjal9$7ps$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
3 >> There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
4 >> have an initrd (or initramfs).
5 >
6 > Sshh! Don't tell the systems I've been running on LVM for years that they
7 > need an initrd or they'll all want one!
8
9 Ha ha. I shouldn't have told mine, then they wouldn't have asked for one ;-)
10
11 > Just use a 300MB root partition, no separate /boot and put everything
12 > else on LVM. Then all the tools you need are in /, so no initrd needed.
13
14 Understood. Thanks for the reply.
15
16 -- Remy

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