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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:31:06 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500
> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either
>>>> switch to another distro
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>> Just remember, with distros it's the device you know for the devil
>>> you don't know...
>>>
>>> I don't understand why any of this /usr /udev stuff is bothering
>>> you. Do you really use a separate /usr? Aren't you on stable like
>>> me or are you on ~amd64?
>>>
>>> Good luck. I'm positive you'll come to your senses about this Ubuntu
>>> nonsense! ;-)))
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> My plan was to put / on ext4, /boot on ext2 and everything else on
>> LVM. That would incluse /usr, /usr/portage, /var and /home. I have
>> not done that yet because doing it would force me to make a choice
>> very soon since this mess is coming pretty soon.
>
> That's easy to fix. It takes a while and it's mind-numbingly boring,
> but it's easy.
>
> All you need is a decent amount of free disk space as you will shuffle
> things around just like in that 15 pieces game.
>
> Assuming / is the first (or second) partition on a disk:
>
> Measure how much data is on the file system.
> Measure how much data is on the /usr file system.
> Move partitions after / on the disk out of the way creating enough free
> space to contain current / and /usr.
> Enlarge / partition, enlarge the file system on it, copy contents
> of /usr there.
> Arrange the rest of your disk the way you want it (either with or
> without LVM, both are easy enough to do).
> Move the rest of your data back to it's final destination.
> Delete any last remnants of the old /usr partition.
>
> And all your worries about initramfs will go away. Trust me (no, not
> because I sell used cars, but because I do this for a living and have
> done it several times)
>
Right now, I doubt my current / partition can hold all the /usr stuff.
It would require a complete undoing then redoing, like you just laid
out. I have done this before but I would like to only have to do it
once and be done. That is why I want to use LVM for everything but /
but if I could get this to work right, I wouldn't mind having / on LVM
too.
Right now, I have very little confidence in this init thingy and me
getting it to work much less able to fix it even it doesn't boot for
some reason.
< sighs >
Dale
:-) :-)
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