Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:13:07 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I have /boot on a plain ext2 partition, root is also on a >> plain ext4 partition. Everything else, /home, /usr, /var etc is on >> LVM. >> If I hadn't had a separate /usr, I would have had to move things around >> to grow /usr. I've done that in the past and got very tired of doing it >> the hard way. With LVM, it's just a few commands and is done while in >> use even. I don't even have to logout, reboot or anything. That's a >> very good reason for having /usr separate from /. > I'd say it's more a very good reason to put / on LVM too. I used to use a > separate /usr but found no real benefit so I now leave it as part of /. > >
Well, if / is on LVM and /usr needs room, one can just grow / which would increase /usr to, if it is on / and not separate. At the time, I wasn't comfortable putting / or /boot on LVM. I'm not sure it was doable then. I think it required more of the init thingy than I knew how to deal with. It sounds like it may be a lot easier now. Come to think of it, I think I was on the old grub back then. Speaking of, can I get rid of one of these or are both required? If I can remove one, which one? I'm on the new grub and have been for a while. I think I uninstalled the old grub a long time ago. root@fireball / # du -shc /boot/grub* 34M /boot/grub 6.9M /boot/grub2 41M total root@fireball / # If I can get rid of the plain grub, that would free up some space. The grub2 directory isn't as big but still wouldn't hurt. Dale :-) :-)
