From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SCdsk-00063w-0B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5533EE0B60; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87B6E088D for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:22:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=TvJkdUrh c=1 sm=0 a=xvUQ5II7JMRnhGkbsebX1A==:17 a=txVIi73YdL4A:10 a=qGEVY6PTvLsA:10 a=6WvLBrxrMboA:10 a=wPDyFdB5xvgA:10 a=Uxmo08gEHq4A:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=Rzsp7BxtY1VKRMzEzxgA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=xvUQ5II7JMRnhGkbsebX1A==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 97.102.250.187 Received: from [97.102.250.187] ([97.102.250.187:39960] helo=basement.kutulu.org) by cdptpa-oedge01.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id B3/56-17039-5AF227F4; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:22:45 +0000 Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC237D801C for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:22:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id D7E9hv4YivwY for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:22:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MIKEDESKTOP (173.221.47.98.nw.nuvox.net [173.221.47.98]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7ED2E7D801B for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:22:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Edenfield" To: References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <4F71E865.30800@hadt.biz> <4F71F182.5010709@gmail.com> <4F7224B8.1050806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F7224B8.1050806@gmail.com> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:22:43 -0400 Message-ID: <006601cd0c5f$c0003d40$4000b7c0$@kutulu.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: AQIcf4pAlGLTYqMboeeGXMZePbduhwLpJJVQAnjmOpgDMMhECANcOFFjAZ7S0ncBWIEzwJVojSnA Content-Language: en-us X-Archives-Salt: 194969e1-547c-41f8-8391-45b41f20eca6 X-Archives-Hash: 7a5ca714d16b0604d61043815d5b374f > From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com] =20 > Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my = other post. > Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either switch to = another > distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't working or just move > everything to / and hope it doesn't ever screw up right after I go to = bed and > full up / with errors in the messages file. > I had this happen once. Having /var on it's own partition was the = only thing > that saved my butt. Ok, silly question time: if this is a concern for you, why not leave = /var on its own partition? Just merge / and /usr and leave it at that? --Mike