On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Jorge Martínez López <jorg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > 2012/3/11 walt <w41...@gmail.com>: >> On 03/11/2012 05:16 AM, Jorge Martínez López wrote: >>> Hi! >> >> Hi Jorge. >> >>> I had some struggle with a separate /usr on top of LVM >> >> I'm just curious why you use a separate /usr, and why you are >> willing to struggle to keep it that way. Several people have >> posted opinions here in recent months, but I don't recall that >> you are one of them. > > I believe that by the time I installed Gentoo it was recommended on > the installation handbook. I did not give it much thought. I believed > back then that thanks to LVM I could always grow and shrink my > partitions as needed. > > If I had to do it again I would probably go the btrfs route (once they > get fsck working). > > Regarding the whole /usr discussion, I trust the developers to know > what they are doing better than I do and I did not find any serious > flaw on their reasoning. It took me just a couple of hours to get the > initrd working, so I did it and moved on. On the other hand I can > understand some people disagree. I do not have a problem with that.
Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. -- :wq
