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 1SCeVT-0004Cg-Ds for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:04:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB250E0795; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B31E07CA for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhjj72 with SMTP id j72so426125yhj.40 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:01:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tXYzpFZasrSsuPgBT8QvVN91t5Vj4QdHr1mTXrmsXSo=; b=brE1cik5f+E998q34n8Kgt4LdZbFEz5CILfGcn1Fynkp302vWx/eQPKE7mvvP7MRc8 PhcZrY7CFQt5n8ibAxWaFVLLfwerHUuMqNq1rheOWfnr0JaaPaRL4EmSiupwfEe8Ke0x MD4Voub+lrXV8ky84ZOE2dbsW8NItcwbCxC4n/8vu0+m4vIPJ8+OH6gkT42odLGoqrK9 OUMunTFIQ+JJ6nl7GLgJZpffdu09LvRxuZTPat2tnIf1MvEP9AQ26ui/L/YDegsSAwzU RjkxdbhLc9WRrXHC1ZJZ6/o8gWI7bZgr+HI1+GDG1ffQgfG7/hpp/Ap76/JtfSQKs73v miSA== Received: by 10.236.157.105 with SMTP id n69mr19441104yhk.38.1332885694702; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-214-242.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.214.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x68sm2631820yhi.19.2012.03.27.15.01.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F7238BA.1060406@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:01:30 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120325 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <4F71E865.30800@hadt.biz> <4F71F182.5010709@gmail.com> <4F7224B8.1050806@gmail.com> <006601cd0c5f$c0003d40$4000b7c0$@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <006601cd0c5f$c0003d40$4000b7c0$@kutulu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0aa45b02-794f-4e3f-a8a6-626caa70b52e X-Archives-Hash: 3e824d6735453963e7989f4f40f426c7 Mike Edenfield wrote: >> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com] > >> Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my other post. >> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either switch to another >> distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't working or just move >> everything to / and hope it doesn't ever screw up right after I go to bed and >> full up / with errors in the messages file. > >> I had this happen once. Having /var on it's own partition was the only thing >> that saved my butt. > > Ok, silly question time: if this is a concern for you, why not leave /var on its own partition? Just merge / and /usr and leave it at that? > > --Mike > > > Post crossing but I wanted to put / on ext4, /boot on ext2 and everything else on LVM. I been wanting to do that for a long while but wanted to learn LVM pretty well first. I'm trying to learn this init thingy to but it's not working to well so far. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"