Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 03:45 -0600, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:03:44 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > 
> >> Well, that is one of the things I want to change.  I have several
> >> reasons for wanting to change this mess.  One is a file system change
> >> and the other is to use LVM for stuff.  I basically want LVM for
> >> everything but root itself and /boot of course. 
> > 
> > If you're already using an initramfs to mount /usr, you may as well put
> > root on LVM too and let it mount that too. Alternatively, have a small /,
> > a few hundred MB, and no separate /boot.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> That could be a good idea.  I got other issues right now.
> 
> I decided to do a fresh install on the larger drive.  I sort of like to
> brush up every once in a while.  I got to the point where I want to do a
> emerge -e system then copy my world file over and finish it up.  It
> appears that the stage3 tarball is in a state where not much can be
> upgraded.  Every time I try to update something, I get a list of blocks,
> either packages or USE flags.
> 
> I'm going to try to beat some sense into this a while longer then I'm
> going to bed, right after rm -rfv /mnt/gentoo/* is started.  ;-)
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 

ah LVM, dont you just love it ... just ran low on space on a /home
partition across town.  ok, reclaim some space from /var/data  which at
1.4T has plenty to spare.  Once Ive finished I noticed a "small"
problem ... typed 1G instead of 1T when shrinking /var/data, and the
89Gb packet capture I had there is toast :(

One of those "Ah F..." moments ... love backups.

Billk