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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:28:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111125222818.44806271@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111125215856.GA15268@waltdnes.org>

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On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:58:56 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:

> * the rest of the drive is one large reiserfs partition
> 
>   The power of LVM, without the pain.

Hardly. For instance, a runaway program filling logfiles will
fill up everything, you can't isolate, for example, personal and system
data.

I don't see how you have use your method with multiple drives without
serious kludging.

LVM is about a lot more than keeping everything on one partition.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Monday is the root of all evil!

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-25 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-25  7:20 [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world waltdnes
2011-11-25  7:31 ` Dale
2011-11-25 19:45   ` Walter Dnes
2011-11-25 20:27     ` Dale
2011-11-25 21:58       ` Walter Dnes
2011-11-25 22:28         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-12-09  9:27 ` [gentoo-user] "We've already been run in this tree;" error world Walter Dnes

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