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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:05:58
Message-Id: 201309302305.39587.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday 30 Sep 2013 20:14:44 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On 30/09/2013 19:25, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > >>> But... is /usr/portage the default/recommended location? If so, then I
4 > >>>
5 > >>> >> don't think I want to move it - I generally never change defaults
6 > >>> >> unless there is a very good reason to do so.
7 > >> >
8 > >> > It's /var/portage for new installs. If you want it to be somewhere
9 > >> > else, just move it and adjust make.conf
10 > >
11 > > really? so when I moved PORTDIR to /var/portage I was ahead of the rest?
12 > > Wow...
13 >
14 > You were ahead of me for sure :-)
15 >
16 > I clearly remember one day long long ago you ranted and raved about how
17 > a huge chunk of /usr was write-often...
18 >
19 > ... so I fiddled with mine to make it work on /var too and was very
20 > happy with it.
21
22
23 There's no reason to move /usr/portage to / It can stay in your LVM.
24
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>