From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:08:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150318090857.6137ae1a@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7065434.Q7ja2qHd7n@wstn>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:54:40 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I don't have / on lvm. /boot and / are on regular partitions.
> > Everything else, /usr, /var and /home, are on lvm. Keep in mind, I
> > was trying to avoid that init thingy.
>
> I remember something of that discussion, but not why you wanted to
> keep /usr on a separate partition. Why is that? Is it one of those
> sacred cows that "just growed" like Topsy? :)
In order to avoid an "init thingy"[tm]. If you want root on LVM you need
a thingy thingy, a separate root avoids that. I used to run a similar
configuration for the same reason, separate /root on ext4 but no
separate /boot.
Nowadays, I don't use LVM and I've grown to like dracut.
--
Neil Bothwick
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it
considered a hostage situation?
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-16 14:08 [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker Dale
2015-03-16 15:34 ` Walter Dnes
2015-03-17 1:43 ` Dale
2015-03-17 8:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-03-17 17:01 ` Dale
2015-03-17 17:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-03-17 18:10 ` Dale
2015-03-17 18:40 ` Mike Gilbert
2015-03-17 20:16 ` Dale
2015-03-17 20:31 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-03-17 21:07 ` Dale
2015-03-18 8:54 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-18 9:08 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-03-18 9:33 ` Dale
2015-03-18 10:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-18 16:14 ` Dale
2015-03-18 17:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-18 16:37 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-18 17:56 ` Poncho
2015-03-18 18:12 ` Dale
2015-03-18 21:55 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-18 23:12 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-19 4:14 ` Dale
2015-03-19 9:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-19 15:29 ` Dale
2015-03-17 18:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-03-17 20:20 ` Dale
2015-03-17 20:46 ` Alan McKinnon
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