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 1RF9Dg-0007rm-9g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:44:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AB1221C075; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF9121C28D for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.138] (helo=smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RF9CU-0006Um-1R for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:14 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RF9CR-0008Fp-Um for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:11 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E44179E for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pm+pNYWgKo9p for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1AFA44B8 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Apologize to everyone for my nonprofessional Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:09 +0200 Message-ID: <3345987.KWZlupx9KJ@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.1 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <4E992E82.5010103@gmail.com> 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: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1RF9CR-0008Fp-Um X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.692, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.73, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.50) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 41c1aef2d404508c6341c446bb4a3aef On Saturday, October 15, 2011 12:34:10 AM Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote= : > > I noticed the other day that when LVM tries to start, it fails. I = have > > /var on a separate partition here. It was complaining about someth= ing > > on /var missing. So, you may be late in reporting this. I think i= t is > > already needed for LVM if /usr or /var is on a separate partition. >=20 > Again, get the facts right. If you use LVM you will need to use an > initramfs. If you only use a separated /usr you will be able to use > Zac's proposal. Get your own facts right. I use LVM for everything except / and I do NOT need to use an initramfs= . It has worked this way for years and making an initramfs mandatory for = this is=20 a REGRESSION. -- Joost