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 1MJDfP-0002HY-A6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:36:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FB8FE0510; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45993E0510 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9D9DF19FB6F for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:36:31 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:36:26 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing? Message-ID: <20090623223626.680b265c@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <200906210957.30381.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <20090621224933.393362c3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20090622081228.5306c157@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20090622232502.1bdba464@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20090623083201.0a2c8caf@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs77 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/JbtDR2G9N1nAonK2JhZk0X."; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 347cde76-1815-442e-b0af-c86f5d18904b X-Archives-Hash: b9ca18a3b0e5a91f1c3045df92679996 --Sig_/JbtDR2G9N1nAonK2JhZk0X. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:15:13 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > OK, been staring at this terminal for about an hour. I'm at > root@sysresccd /mnt/gentoo where sda1 is mounted. Do I just mount sdb1 > on /mnt/gentoo too? Do I delete home and var then mkdirs on sdb2? > Won't they just be re-made on the same partition, sda1? I've already > unpacked portage on sdb1(mounted on usr), not a problem, I can just > delete it. But why is it when I umount sdb1 from usr and mount it > under /mnt/gentoo I can't see portage under /mnt/gentoo? It's there > when I mount sdb1 on usr. Do I need to fdisk /dev/sdb with all the > relevant partitions? Then I'll have one big 4G partition on the SSD > and a lot of little partitions on the 8G SD, no? Create two partitions on sdb mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/gentoo/var mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/gentoo/home It's really not that hard, but you seem to be trying to find clever solutions when the simple one will do. --=20 Neil Bothwick If Microsoft made cars: "The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying." --Sig_/JbtDR2G9N1nAonK2JhZk0X. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpBSt8ACgkQum4al0N1GQNxJACgw5e58rvwLpO9QvjW7YF87RA9 a/cAn2WV2/7HEDE9NplW41AMod13hEGl =LD6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/JbtDR2G9N1nAonK2JhZk0X.--