On 29/09/2013 22:51, Tanstaafl wrote: > Weird - I thought I replied to this a while ago (I know I started one), > but it disappeared, and is not in my Sent folder and it never made it to > the list... > > On 2013-09-29 2:55 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I am the OpenRC author/maintainer and a member of base-system. I can >> tell you that we are not discussing forcing systemd on everyone in >> Gentoo Linux as a default init system. I can also tell you that I am not >> aware of the Gentoo systemd team discussing this. Even if they were, a >> distro-wide change like this would have to be brought before the >> Council. > > Thanks very much for this William. I will take you at your word and will > stop worrying about the whole systemd thing (unless/until evidence > warrants revisiting it)... > > So, now I just have to get up the nerve to attempt the merging of my LVM > based /usr into my / so I don't have to worry about an initramfs. > > There are no technical reasons it shouldn't work - my / is 19G, with > 18GB free right now. My /usr currently takes up 13GB, so merging should > leave mw with 5GB free... > > Does anyone see an issue with a 19GB / with merged /usr and only 5GB > free? Was I correct in my statement to Dale that there is nothing used > by or stored in /usr that could consume that last 5GB and crash my > server (ie, like a runaway log can fill up /var)? > > Thanks again... >
Correct on all counts. This laptop runs KDE, here's my breakdown: # du -sh /usr 13G /usr # du -sh /usr/* 12K /usr/INSTALL 104K /usr/Licenses_for_Third-Party_Components.txt 426M /usr/bin 12M /usr/gnu-classpath-0.98 460M /usr/include 0 /usr/lib 525M /usr/lib32 2.8G /usr/lib64 134M /usr/libexec 512K /usr/local 38M /usr/sbin 3.6G /usr/share 4.9G /usr/src 0 /usr/tmp 11M /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Those numbers are not likely to change much with time, with one exception: /usr/src That can get real big real quick if you don't clean up kernel sources often. Ideally, you'd make that a suitably sized LV and mount it seperately. The other space consumer is /usr/share with it's many documentation files. But those too tend to be stable once you have everything installed. 5G free out of 19G is ~75% space in use which is perfectly acceptable for this case. Regular monitoring of the state of your machines will tell you if space usage increases so you can investigate and deal with it timeously. I assume you long since moved portage and it's storage directories out of /usr into /var? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
