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 1SCews-0000nZ-UE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:33:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E17A9E06D6; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16759E0A62 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggni4 with SMTP id i4so415716ggn.40 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:09 -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=o3lbRATMAmGd+kwgvLz/ttoI8rzEIGiM13BdG5tzo8o=; b=zWxx3F/2BrlstazO2u2gj7ylrJ/uUzW3vS+wli7tfKaPL4hsxYHkDnnroixp02uLaJ 4kvaGw4Ps4uKHUmF9qsunX/aTZvLsasG9H81x8oG/iCCLwCSsNj1dlU9SWdnc2pZPr0q ZAg4B4PfbOW/CKRKkNJG8lPIenTAmreV8GPP5PjrcVTpbi/1kDHQVuMMVJmnGIApYA5W icAWEYoeglT4NXhbJNgoZfK+Tj9BwnDxboCqyyo/8fkqbk/mIzPJNp09SVoEBSrBHuTX 6DKmkYF/jyYb4yNT+CVQAsYlIEK3KX6Y4EVjV00DufckoK1PBa9gX4HI0nHSSw9iwak2 W9Kw== Received: by 10.236.155.101 with SMTP id i65mr28217326yhk.52.1332887469592; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:09 -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 m30sm2828618yhe.15.2012.03.27.15.31.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F723FAA.9090205@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:31:06 -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> <4F723842.4000501@gmail.com> <20120328001421.7c65a401@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120328001421.7c65a401@khamul.example.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0fc7f933-7ae4-4cd9-b664-437eba1321db X-Archives-Hash: 3c51f5b4b33bbc2fd3c9e25f67d351cd Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500 > Dale wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either >>>> switch to another distro >>> >>> >>> 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 :-) :-) -- 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"