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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Jorge Mart=C3=ADnez L=C3=B3pez <jorgeml@gm=
ail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 2012/3/11 walt <w41ter@gmail.com>:
>> 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
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