On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 06:35:45PM +0800, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:35:52 +0100
> Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:44:37 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> >
> > > What annoys me the most about this forced change is that I like the
> > > old unix style of a single minimal base partition for booting, and
> > > being able to manage all the other partitions while unmounted in
> > > single user mode. In my case, /usr is an LVM partition precisely
> > > because I want to sit in single user mode while resizing it (it
> > > seems to keep on growing ...).
> >
> > It's been safe to increase the size of mounted filesystems for years.
> > But if you can enlarge /usr while using it, you can do the same for/.
> > So if that's your only reason for a separate /usr...
> >
> >
>
> / on LVM is officially not "supported" (in the sense there are no
> official documentation about it) in Gentoo, and is discouraged in the
> Gentoo LVM installation guide. Has been the case since the beginning,
> although there are unofficial wiki and mailinglist/forum posts about
> it. Of course, / on LVM would require an initrd.
>
> That's one reason why many of us using LVM keeps /usr on LVM while / as
> a physical partition. This allows for maximum flexibility, and is a
> supported "legacy" config without an initrd.
That's my position :-) and half-hoping all this udev-181 needing /usr
stuff will disappear and I can go back ...
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