From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049121381F3 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F498E0C53; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEBBE0C1F for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5A93DC05E for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 07:31:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=gnA7UHEgS3FeoiRx8y3lHtuH+78=; b=bsvndpSSFITd rvnDW9GBP6ZZKSkQIsGpUzVOXVN1RXhjCrtAeQo7LM3ZYs8H2IDRRWUnd0y9GG91 t6P6ys8aXpI+n4r8AQWsE4ceBYhVI36wnCwbZUgxJnU4YHoqq12/Zsjo2+wvqCWV wIq+J6J7GjasWVvLztpfBZ7tHypwCKY= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9757D3DC05B for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 07:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52483993.3040201@libertytrek.org> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:30:43 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 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] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 References: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> <20130927223916.GE23408@server> <52460D42.2080109@gmail.com> <52461056.9020604@gmail.com> <5246BE35.3010408@libertytrek.org> <5246D674.1010806@hadt.biz> In-Reply-To: <5246D674.1010806@hadt.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d47849ae-18c4-4ca6-b33d-7acd700529ad X-Archives-Hash: 3e89982e99d7484331d70196218709fd On 2013-09-28 9:15 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 28.09.2013 13:32, schrieb Tanstaafl: >> >On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>No really,*why exactly*? >> >> Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first >> set this system up many years ago. >> > Where did you read that? According to the 2004 handbook the default > partition scheme was: > > Partition Filesystem Size Description > /dev/hda1 ext2 32M Boot partition > /dev/hda2 (swap) 512M Swap partition > /dev/hda3 ext3 Rest of the disk Root partition > > > http://web.archive.org/web/20040419042803/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 While I'm fairly certain that it was in the LVM portion of the handbook (since that is what I was wanting to use), I really don't care what that link says. The fact is, when I installed this system, it was my very first gentoo system, and I am very methodical about these kinds of things, and there is absolutely no way on gods green earth that I would have opted for a separate /usr unless the instructions said to do it, whether as something that was mandatory, or maybe it only said it was preferred (to take advantage of the features of LVM)...