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 1S7A2y-0000L9-UX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:32:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06D64E0D5E; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C957E0D13 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so3354519bkw.40 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LLAL0EH2COyeDqUZUM4rsItIWSFgsh8ySEBD9zgt4u4=; b=LFrJxS3wxZrIipOUfODSkcaUiauKBfnKqNlnvHQjiCWb+Yf0kLovLezg9Nt5wmnIGM OGO0NaC7B+s6bC7+fjj3nrncai4wUTRcm/NHuqsHo6wEe3qDlWORrNPHkwB0d+M5FTE5 ghaGFdacD0LTDHag15FKCL6vYCcWXSi9TrZC5yeGs6aHmBW4yKPPRJNYR89jxN0BDGX5 OfeWMaBmS9C+ra/DjoSj9lX7I0ZuT7uqwRo/0wO657y2TQUugmcjZaNwy77kqt3fJY8T kVqZP5EERGBgGuRjG/YFvVbiSokGOykuciK/g7HbKaCBjuDf4HwPZtGCd9bpG/bDBTsl 5pbA== 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 Received: by 10.204.131.74 with SMTP id w10mr5313739bks.84.1331577002161; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.168.17 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4F5AC0F6.6000804@gmail.com> <4F5B33CA.2020705@coolmail.se> <20120310153540.5194cd7c@digimed.co.uk> <4F5BBE7A.8040802@coolmail.se> <4F5C724C.1010708@coolmail.se> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:30:02 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts. From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4360664e-4f39-4572-92a0-9afea99ddbd3 X-Archives-Hash: 90c53098d4136998f6f5b6466b119098 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Jorge Mart=C3=ADnez L=C3=B3pez wrote: > Hi! > > 2012/3/11 walt : >> On 03/11/2012 05:16 AM, Jorge Mart=C3=ADnez L=C3=B3pez wrote: >>> Hi! >> >> Hi Jorge. >> >>> I had some struggle with a separate /usr on top of LVM >> >> I'm just curious why you use a separate /usr, and why you are >> willing to struggle to keep it that way. =C2=A0Several people have >> posted opinions here in recent months, but I don't recall that >> you are one of them. > > I believe that by the time I installed Gentoo it was recommended on > the installation handbook. I did not give it much thought. I believed > back then that thanks to LVM I could always grow and shrink my > partitions as needed. > > If I had to do it again I would probably go the btrfs route (once they > get fsck working). > > Regarding the whole /usr discussion, I trust the developers to know > what they are doing better than I do and I did not find any serious > flaw on their reasoning. It took me just a couple of hours to get the > initrd working, so I did it and moved on. On the other hand I can > understand some people disagree. I do not have a problem with that. Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves. --=20 :wq