Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:31:06 -0500 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500 >>> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: <SNIP> >>>>> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either >>>>>> switch to another distro >>>>> <SNIP> >>>>> >>>>> Just remember, with distros it's the device you know for the devil >>>>> you don't know... >>>>> >>>>> I don't understand why any of this /usr /udev stuff is bothering >>>>> you. Do you really use a separate /usr? Aren't you on stable like >>>>> me or are you on ~amd64? >>>>> >>>>> Good luck. I'm positive you'll come to your senses about this >>>>> Ubuntu nonsense! ;-))) >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> My plan was to put / on ext4, /boot on ext2 and everything else on >>>> LVM. That would incluse /usr, /usr/portage, /var and /home. I have >>>> not done that yet because doing it would force me to make a choice >>>> very soon since this mess is coming pretty soon. >>> >>> That's easy to fix. It takes a while and it's mind-numbingly boring, >>> but it's easy. >>> >>> All you need is a decent amount of free disk space as you will >>> shuffle things around just like in that 15 pieces game. >>> >>> Assuming / is the first (or second) partition on a disk: >>> >>> Measure how much data is on the file system. >>> Measure how much data is on the /usr file system. >>> Move partitions after / on the disk out of the way creating enough >>> free space to contain current / and /usr. >>> Enlarge / partition, enlarge the file system on it, copy contents >>> of /usr there. >>> Arrange the rest of your disk the way you want it (either with or >>> without LVM, both are easy enough to do). >>> Move the rest of your data back to it's final destination. >>> Delete any last remnants of the old /usr partition. >>> >>> And all your worries about initramfs will go away. Trust me (no, not >>> because I sell used cars, but because I do this for a living and >>> have done it several times) >>> >> >> >> Right now, I doubt my current / partition can hold all the /usr stuff. >> It would require a complete undoing then redoing, like you just laid >> out. I have done this before but I would like to only have to do it >> once and be done. That is why I want to use LVM for everything but / >> but if I could get this to work right, I wouldn't mind having / on LVM >> too. > > / on LVM isn't all that useful, simply because it's size doesn't change > much and there's no real need to grow it. It's not like /var. > > Binary distros put LVm on / not because it's a good idea but because > they like to have consistency. You don't need that because you know > what you built and it doesn't need to be supported by a corporate > employee far away. > > You are worrying yourself needlessly about this init thing. > > Just take some small measures to ensure that it will never be a factor. > >
So throw out my plans and just do it their way? In that case, I may as well use Fedora since it sort of started there. Maybe that is what they wanted and planned. Screw everyone using a source based distro and they will just come use ours. This is starting to make me paranoid now. ROFL Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
