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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Jorge Martínez López <jorgeml@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> 2012/3/11 walt <w41ter@×××××.com>: |
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>> On 03/11/2012 05:16 AM, Jorge Martínez López wrote: |
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>>> Hi! |
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>> Hi Jorge. |
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>>> I had some struggle with a separate /usr on top of LVM |
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>> I'm just curious why you use a separate /usr, and why you are |
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>> willing to struggle to keep it that way. Several people have |
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>> posted opinions here in recent months, but I don't recall that |
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>> you are one of them. |
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> I believe that by the time I installed Gentoo it was recommended on |
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> the installation handbook. I did not give it much thought. I believed |
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> back then that thanks to LVM I could always grow and shrink my |
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> partitions as needed. |
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> If I had to do it again I would probably go the btrfs route (once they |
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> get fsck working). |
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> Regarding the whole /usr discussion, I trust the developers to know |
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> what they are doing better than I do and I did not find any serious |
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> flaw on their reasoning. It took me just a couple of hours to get the |
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> initrd working, so I did it and moved on. On the other hand I can |
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> understand some people disagree. I do not have a problem with that. |
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Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far |
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removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. |
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:wq |
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