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 1R4KEb-0003nr-2k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:16:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35EE721C2BB; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA2321C20E for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACC6122005 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:15:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EtLe2DPEE1yv for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:15:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from platypus.localnet (platypus.kutulu.org [192.168.69.93]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2DD9C122004 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:15:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Edenfield To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:05:09 -0400 Message-ID: <2706826.XB2sRdg1Od@platypus> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-hardened-r10; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1453437.J9amsHg7VM@eve> References: <20110912150248.GB3599@acm.acm> <1720176.jW0GbpkhUk@platypus> <1453437.J9amsHg7VM@eve> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 17596fede141bc7405d64d331b228841 On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: > > I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those > > such as myslelf, who have no opinion whatsoever, and either will not be > > affected at all by these changes (because they don't separate / and > > /usr), or will simply apply the proposed initramfs solution and move > > on. > > You also don't have /var (or /var/log) seperated? Or any of the other parts > of the filesystem that might be required by udev-rules? Speaking solely for myself, no. Years ago I routinely split /, /usr, and /var when setting up my FreeBSD systems, and found that it only ever caused problems when I could not get /usr or /var mounted when I needed them. At least since I switched to Gentoo, I've simply set up one partition with everything on it, and kept regular backups in case of failure. I clearly recognize that there are valid reasons to split your partitions, I have just never found any of them applicable to my situations. --Mike