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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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I answered that question already. I have / and /boot on regular |
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partitions and EVERYTHING else on LVM. That includes /home, /usr and |
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/var. |
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/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,commit=0) |
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/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) |
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/dev/mapper/OS-usr on /usr type ext4 (rw,commit=0) |
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/dev/mapper/OS-var on /var type ext4 (rw,commit=0) |
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/dev/mapper/home-home on /home type ext4 (rw,commit=0) |
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/dev/mapper/backup-backup on /backup type ext4 (rw,commit=0) |
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I also have the backup partition but that is only needed when I make |
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one. At any rate. I don't have some exotic hardware like a bluetooth |
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keyboard and other such needless stuff. |
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As someone else posted, some folks have different mount options for /usr |
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that they do for others partitions. For me, I just want to keep it |
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seperate so that I can adjust things with LVM if I need to. Something I |
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have done a couple times I might add just since I started using LVM a |
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few years ago. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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