On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > On Tue, 5 May 2009 17:36:02 +0200 > > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > > > > I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and > > > by prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a > > > standalone /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth > > > mentioning does it (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). > > > > > > I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning > > > forever large changes to packages for no real gain sucks. > > > > > > So, does anybody still see reasons to continue supporting a > > > standalone /usr? > > You can lvm resize a standalone /usr by booting single user (I've done > it when my /usr got too small).
You know you can do all that online nowadays? Just lvmresize and resize2fs (or the equivalent) while it's mounted; no single user mode required. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
