From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561E6138CBF for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F825E09D6; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:09:00 +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 94856E096A for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A54E12657E for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:08:58 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:08:57 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker Message-ID: <20150318090857.6137ae1a@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7065434.Q7ja2qHd7n@wstn> References: <5506E3E8.8070008@gmail.com> <55088F2D.5080708@gmail.com> <55089791.5080603@gmail.com> <7065434.Q7ja2qHd7n@wstn> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-79-gde6f18 (GTK+ 2.24.27; 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_/fhqlxhLeGCz2c2rvHoMK31r"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 5cd55cd4-3e38-47f9-a65c-57446f2a7efe X-Archives-Hash: c80b5e71be0b08dc2be223804feda7b9 --Sig_/fhqlxhLeGCz2c2rvHoMK31r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? --Sig_/fhqlxhLeGCz2c2rvHoMK31r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUJQKkACgkQum4al0N1GQNaoACgqS1UBrlYG0jOCV1OzUTg2pdr 75QAn3mxTQb/BEAcJ9J6W8s9dXI7+HCN =ccre -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/fhqlxhLeGCz2c2rvHoMK31r--