From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F361138330 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C1EDE0953; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-x243.google.com (mail-yw0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC5CDE093B for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-x243.google.com with SMTP id t201so4574855ywf.1 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:53:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oyDMuFrhSNpCWlo8ImtED9Wybaa6JlE4aZb3x3cuTPg=; b=PZMJz5hTXI37gwlc123KMbekYSb/fn1/eMJTVWrYSk6kUKDJqD0PRHXHVNfqM85Pqs zOFJQ/g8+r+ADoaHvR0UufKlYqh62dvVQswqxuzJaYmc3bd/X6KHXsbfAWP7qlt7XzWe IVlsyI2BrAA315WjhTK2uxknDM75TGxanuWraSbGgW1OCEjNLsi63rRhWaoothOlgEbP 6SbrLYSDq2meuddkXQe0YB4CsyDKWjVOJF9A69l3Y4jXO6DPN1vzM14vXpUzStk+Ssds wNzFUXdWDRfUZsY2IFd8jalAtFyciVb3A7hlou02SpZLkjVndkLbQ3WRzWrnf4K6Cplt y/Ug== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oyDMuFrhSNpCWlo8ImtED9Wybaa6JlE4aZb3x3cuTPg=; b=CBWFA+OzMJmj550anltzC9vKOjFE9jYTypA1EQ6pEFtoDGhWG8nbdAIUdhfT39Qezx h++keuPfs/GULCjkwvK1P0nqAuMymB+TxPkX98IgYSXJEHMnMS2584znyaKSnnV6ECzG EkGM7uuojqNIoD+Qlop9Qn8u3xzcIGpGco/L3DJXMYNp2PSUv4rTjIT7OtD+3sqjbJfA HL4GV5L1J96azUVYdTQ8rSuJTZjbXTJqjI7C7NK6WOqQWSs4hzndNtzXcw77xJaSHn6X j2UdNBJz13oC8BovxnWeFphcWLtCD+uzhkW1IAlB6JYS7ynQKDY0krKblSgOBR8SXEPO KqjQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKwxytcyikQAbJSThb4ZYnG0kPd+JLGw46cqhxRlKsGpBbR4MI9zi5Yr +Sn+DOm3e/WSb5PifgwL6Xw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBov5RTNOiJsA7AK9XXibkSkvveGgus18anZxvNiDqxqTAAsTjscexyMyq5ZWPPgoCvCV0fxD8w== X-Received: by 10.129.102.214 with SMTP id a205mr19192050ywc.466.1515952435884; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-93-225.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.93.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x66sm10869254ywb.107.2018.01.14.09.53.53 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:53:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1515841123.569865.1234053704.79666D14@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180113172932.GA22136@31c0.net> <1515871850.730519.1234341488.39240761@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180113205411.3bab9ace@digimed.co.uk> <20180113211602.5a4b22d5@digimed.co.uk> <0290d20a-6423-1c5a-dd5b-68569216c2b5@gmail.com> <697ac3cf-fc0a-675f-ea5b-67ec3f849035@gmail.com> <20180114024731.bohywijpodo3ae3y@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20180114120558.71ac1e33@digimed.co.uk> From: Dale Message-ID: <75733a0f-07b7-dec8-c4db-8035a27eb630@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:53:52 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.5.2 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 In-Reply-To: <20180114120558.71ac1e33@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 0080e77e-a748-4156-881a-0a65da56f5e7 X-Archives-Hash: a3da962b4c0b9c7f2d8263c0855e3392 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:59:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Yea, it used to be recommended and in a way it can still be a good >> idea.  I use LVM for example and I can increase /usr, /var, /home or >> whatever without having to redo my drive setup.  The only thing I can't >> change is / which is a regular file system.  Just have to cross that >> bridge when I get there. > You can put / on LVM too, but then you'll need an init-thingy and I don't > think any of us want to go there ;-) > > Yea, keep in mind, I didn't want a init thingy at all.  Thing is, I had already set up my partitions when that requirement came along.  In a way, I'd either like to have everything on LVM or BTRFS or nothing but /home on one of those.  In other words, if I have to have a init thingy, everything is where I can shrink/expand as needed or if no init thingy then all those are on a regular file system.  Likely going with the later next time around.  Maybe by then BTRFS will be 100% ready to go then.  ;-)  Dale :-)  :-)