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On 29.09.2013 20:25, Dale wrote: |
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> Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> On 2013-09-29 11:24 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>>>> Dale - I'm honestly curious, what is your reason, philisophical or |
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>>>> technical, for wanting a separate /usr? |
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>>>> Everything I've read says there is no good reason for it today. |
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>>>> Separate /home, /tmp, /var, yes, good reasons for t hose... but not |
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>>>> /usr... |
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>>>> So, again - why would you prefer switching distro's over merging /usr |
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>>>> back into / and be done with it? |
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>>> The reason is the same I have posted before. I have / and /boot on |
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>>> regular partitions. Everything else is on LVM. I don't have / on LVM |
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>>> because it would require a init thingy. I don't have /boot on LVM |
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>>> because grub doesn't or didn't support it. I have since switched to |
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>>> grub2 so it may but still have the issue with / so no need redoing |
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>>> everything for that. |
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>> Well, I don't see a *reason* to WANT to have /usr on a separate |
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>> partition. I see only THE reason that you have it there NOW. |
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>> Also, logically speaking, if the stated reason for not having / (or |
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>> /boot) on separate LVM partitions is because it would require an init |
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>> thingy, then why can't you simply add /usr to that reason? |
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>> Again, I'm asking for why you WANT it on a separate LVM partition, not |
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>> why it is there now. |
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>> The way I see it, if y ou cannot provide a rational answer to that |
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>> question, then there is no reason for you to use this as a reason to |
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>> abandon gentoo, only a reason to merge /usr into /... |
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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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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> |
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