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On 28/09/2013 00:57, Dale wrote: |
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> Bruce Hill wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> I'm hoping that since I use eudev, I don't have to worry about this. |
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>>> If I do, this could get interesting, again. Dale |
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>> Do you have /usr separate from / ? |
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> Yep. From my understanding tho, eudev is not supposed to be affected by |
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> this problem tho. |
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> One reason for this being seperate, I have / and /boot on a regular |
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> partition and everything else on LVM. Sometimes that /usr gets a bit |
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> full. It's not so bad after I moved all the portage stuff out and put |
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> it in /var. Now I have to watch /var too. lol |
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Ask yourself this question: |
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Why do you have /usr separate? |
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No really, *why exactly*? |
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One of the very first things you do with /usr at boot time is mount it, |
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and from then on you use it exactly as if it were always on / anyway. |
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I'll bet that since you moved all of portage out, your mount options and |
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fs configs are the same between the two anyway. So what exactly does a |
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separate /usr get you on a stabd-alone workstation buy you? I've been |
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looking at this for ages and conclude it buys me nothing but pain. They |
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don't even change much if /home and /var are elsewhere, so guage your |
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size right (easy to do) and never need look at it again. |
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Separate /usr for the most part is an ancient artifact from decades ago. |
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It's useful in edge cases but not in the general case with modern |
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hardware. So why do people do it? I reckon it's inertia and nothign |
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more. Which is kinda silly as inertia ignores everythign else in the |
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environment that is changing around you (and *that* is a given). |
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So unless you have something exotic like /usr mounted off a central |
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server, or want / on LVM (and your grub doesn't support lvm), you are |
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going to need an initramfs anyway to get around the circular bootstrap |
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problem. |
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I say people should make their lives easier and just stick /usr on the |
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same volume as / and be done with it. It removes a whole lot of painful |
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scenarios that are going to keep on biting you as the rest of the world |
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moves on and progresses |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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