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On 2013-09-29 5:35 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> Ok, but... everything I've read and personal experience over the years |
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>> shows that space required for /usr should not change much, especially |
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>> constantly grow over time (like requirements for /home can and will)- |
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>> it may fluctuate (increase, decrease) *a little* over time, but it |
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>> definitely should not grow substantially, so, if you had to resize it, |
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>> most likely it is because you simply didn't allocate enough room to |
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>> start with. |
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> So my experience doesn't matter any then? |
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Dale, that is NOT what I said, and nothing I am saying is intended to be |
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offensive. |
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> My /usr does vary and sometimes varies quite a bit. |
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The question you should be asking yourself then, is WHY? |
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> That is why I had to resize the thing. Saying that I didn't make it |
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> large enough to begin with isn't the point. |
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It is precisely the point... |
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The fact is, there is nothing in there that *should* vary much (once |
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your system is fully installed) - unless you are using it in some |
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non-standard way, and/or not occasionally cleaning out /usr/src (as Alan |
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pointed out)... and if either of those is the case, then as I said, it |
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is your own fault that you needed to resize it. |
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Don't you see how contradictory it is to say that you will change from |
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gentoo to distro-x because gentoo has made a change that requires you to |
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either merge /usr into / or use an 'init thingy', when distro-x, that |
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you say you will change to, USES AN INIT THINGY? Doesn't that sound |
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irrational to you? |
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What would be logical and rational would be to either: |
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a) learn how to use an init thingy (which from some more reading I've |
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been doing, doesn't look quite as bad as it seemed initially), or |
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b) determine what is a sane size for /usr, make / an appropriate size to |
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subsume it, and merge it into /. |
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Now, if you don't have enough room in / to merge it, then obviously it |
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will be more painful, but once it is done, you never have to worry about |
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it again - and no init thingy. |
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> When people use LVM, the reason they use it is so that we can resize |
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> things when needed. |
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Yes, and I use LVM - but again, this is only important for dirs/mnt |
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points that have the potential to consume more and more disk space... |
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that potential is simply not there for (a properly configured and |
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maintained) /usr... |
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> And what is rational for you, is not rational to me. Since you can |
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> dismiss mine, I can dismiss yours too. Funny how that works huh? |
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Yep... and you can also dismiss my claim that jumping off that 1,000' |
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cliff won't result in you going splat, but it doesn't change the fact |
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that if you jump off of it, you WILL go splat. I just wouldn't get the |
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chance to say I told you so. |
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