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On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu> wrote: |
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> On 29.09.2013 20:25, Dale wrote: |
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>> Simple, I have never had to resize / or /boot before. I have had to |
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>> resize /usr, /var and /home several times tho. THAT is the reason. For |
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>> me, it doesn't matter if it is rational to YOU or not. I am the one |
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>> doing things on my puter not you or anyone else. If the init thingy |
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>> fails, that will be me staring at a error message, not you. |
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> I agree to 100% with you Dale. I have /usr on a separate LVM partition |
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> (I only have, as you, / and /boot on regular partitions) to be able to |
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> easily extend it (which I have been forced to do a few times). |
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> And as my VG-partition starts directly after the /-partition I am not in |
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> the position to extend / to "engulf" all the data in /usr. |
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Peeps using LVM: |
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If, right now, you were forced to boot into /, without /usr, would you |
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be able to manually assemble your usr using pv/vg/lv tools - without |
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the assistance of udev? |
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The gentoo warning is simply saying that they don't have enough people |
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to devote to debugging problems where that happens. So if you so love |
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your / rescue systems, you can make a very early init script - before udev - |
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that mounts /usr. And you could host it on an overlay if you want or |
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submit it into gentoo bugzilla as a proposal. |
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It isn't unsupported in that they're going to make sure it doesn't work. |
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It's unsupported in that they don't have the resources to fix bugs caused by |
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that. |
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