On 29.09.2013 20:25, Dale wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2013-09-29 11:24 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Tanstaafl wrote: >>>> Dale - I'm honestly curious, what is your reason, philisophical or >>>> technical, for wanting a separate /usr? >>>> >>>> Everything I've read says there is no good reason for it today. >>>> Separate /home, /tmp, /var, yes, good reasons for t hose... but not >>>> /usr... >>>> >>>> So, again - why would you prefer switching distro's over merging /usr >>>> back into / and be done with it? >> >>> The reason is the same I have posted before. I have / and /boot on >>> regular partitions. Everything else is on LVM. I don't have / on LVM >>> because it would require a init thingy. I don't have /boot on LVM >>> because grub doesn't or didn't support it. I have since switched to >>> grub2 so it may but still have the issue with / so no need redoing >>> everything for that. >> >> Well, I don't see a *reason* to WANT to have /usr on a separate >> partition. I see only THE reason that you have it there NOW. >> >> Also, logically speaking, if the stated reason for not having / (or >> /boot) on separate LVM partitions is because it would require an init >> thingy, then why can't you simply add /usr to that reason? >> >> Again, I'm asking for why you WANT it on a separate LVM partition, not >> why it is there now. >> >> The way I see it, if y ou cannot provide a rational answer to that >> question, then there is no reason for you to use this as a reason to >> abandon gentoo, only a reason to merge /usr into /... >> >> > > Simple, I have never had to resize / or /boot before. I have had to > resize /usr, /var and /home several times tho. THAT is the reason. For > me, it doesn't matter if it is rational to YOU or not. I am the one > doing things on my puter not you or anyone else. If the init thingy > fails, that will be me staring at a error message, not you.
I agree to 100% with you Dale. I have /usr on a separate LVM partition (I only have, as you, / and /boot on regular partitions) to be able to easily extend it (which I have been forced to do a few times). And as my VG-partition starts directly after the /-partition I am not in the position to extend / to "engulf" all the data in /usr. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
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