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 1S6KFb-0007G4-GW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:14:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26249E06BE; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E5EE06DC for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:13:03 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ar8GACk2W098qfPB/2dsb2JhbABDgwmCLq0GgwKBB4IKAQEFI1EVCw0LAgImAgJXiCKoVpFrgS+JEYMfggyBFgSIUpJjIooYgnCBSQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,562,1325433600"; d="scan'208";a="336621474" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.243.193]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2012 19:13:01 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B78D19C59 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:12:37 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wu1iR0URNSR0 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:12:18 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6378B452CE for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:12:17 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts. From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4F5B22D1.8020700@gmail.com> References: <4F5AC0F6.6000804@gmail.com> <4F5AD58A.1050300@gmail.com> <4F5AEEC0.1020808@gmail.com> <20120310084526.3b70f16f@digimed.co.uk> <4F5B22D1.8020700@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:12:16 +0800 Message-ID: <1331377936.12989.8.camel@moriah> 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 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d3a859f8-54f3-4724-98d1-310b07ef5e24 X-Archives-Hash: cc139c798bf3f77cb1c412b7902930ea 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