Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 18 March 2015 04:33:18 Dale wrote:

> Well, /boot doesn't change to much, plus it is fairly small anyway.  The
> root partition doesn't change a whole lot either.  /usr tho, it tends to
> grow.  If nothing else, it grows as KDE grows but it grows with the
> number of kernels I have too.  Of course, other packages grows too.
> /var is good to have on a separate partition since sometimes a log file
> can grow to some outrageous sizes.  I've actually had that happen twice
> over the years.  Something goes goofy and fills up a log file until it
> is seriously huge and fills up /var.  /home is separate for obvious
> reasons plus mine is really huge.  1.8TBs right now.
> 
> It started out that it was advised to set up partitions like this.  Then
> LVM came along and made it even more reasonable since I can grow the
> partitions that need it.  The init thingy because of some packages being
> moved to /usr didn't hurt the cause I guess either.
> 
> So, I have it set up the way I do because for my setup, it is the best
> way.  I can adjust things without having to have spare drives to move
> things around with.

Yes, I see all that, except for /usr. It does grow, but under some sort of 
control, which (it seems to me) isn't enough cause to submit to all the 
indignities involved in getting your init thingy working.

Here's the relevant part of my fstab:

/dev/sda1          /boot                  ext2 relatime,noauto 1 2
/dev/md5           /                      ext4 relatime        1 1
/dev/vg7/home      /home                  ext4 relatime        1 2
/dev/vg7/common    /home/prh/common       ext4 relatime        1 3
/dev/vg7/boinc     /home/prh/boinc        ext4 relatime        1 2
/dev/vg7/virt      /home/prh/.VirtualBox  ext4 relatime        1 3
/dev/vg7/portage   /var/portage           ext4 relatime        1 2
/dev/vg7/packages  /usr/portage/packages  ext4 relatime        1 3
/dev/vg7/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles ext4 relatime        1 3
/dev/vg7/local     /usr/local             ext4 relatime        1 3
/dev/vg7/opt       /opt                   ext4 relatime        1 2
/dev/vg7/tmp       /tmp                   ext2 relatime        1 2
/dev/vg7/vartmp    /mnt/scratch/          ext2 relatime        1 2

I ought to move /var to its own partition, for the reason you gave, and it's
also time I put /boot back on /dev/md1 where it used to be (/dev/sda1 &
/dev/sdb1).

-- 
Rgds
Peter.