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 1SIYWA-0004sl-KE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:53:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB288E0B81; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f53.google.com (mail-qa0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C3AE0BE6 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadc11 with SMTP id c11so1909628qad.19 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:52:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=eU1O9f+t3iEEwvBiXdhnJmRqyFRlNok1sayH0xX+/3E=; b=Hx82Pa2ZjbCD4qah5WnCSvq2pnd2f6tZ00E6SWmoSA9n/52/kvXX3riGi3kP/JzbQi f1kx9L1j+HW6VLmJ4c07z20E9HbvORRQ4MgsADHgy14f3PfEf5oYtNWjbP+WDHj5qt+f UMiFoPhoO6dqtQGGftxCQsD4qi5HZ2qzegdkW22OuaR84K+3U+0+MPEk3ziSn/jiw14e FX2phpwjkkwIgbXLrJrLG2hnEu2ZdB5STybSky/SkJJUAw/rlRe/URh1BoCJcwBq+vez C/kFQ/w36u2nGyZRVl4FuwefxLjqU00+svAhXUbr+3U1KU6Zyik3Ek1BBv/Lw8X16O4H k6jQ== 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 10.224.184.70 with SMTP id cj6mr653760qab.77.1334292737999; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.155.10 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:52:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F87802C.2070900@gmail.com> References: <4F8731B6.4050405@gmail.com> <4F87802C.2070900@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:52:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM. From: Matthew Marlowe To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkwpPRNzK7034q5tzSPaRavuBuwdrrCkg3oXnyZVHMiUY+7s+xmB6KE0UbTeKsfzsU7WxFv X-Archives-Salt: 8e3ec187-0351-4d5d-8526-91ef02652653 X-Archives-Hash: 513a4dbe96cf68f86f369251f3064b93 fyi, as someone who has played around quite a bit with most of the ways to configure a home workstation, I find the best config currently is: Dedicated Fast Enterprise 2TB drive -> /, swap, and /boot (ext4) Six 2TB Reliable SATA Drives in RAID10 -> /home (ext4 with appropriate chunksize/etc) Two 2TB Reliable SATA Drives in LVM VG -> /archive, other lvm volumes I can afford to lose and may need to change sizes for. No worrying about any bootup complications/initrd or seperate /usr or /var on workstation, all the important personal data is on reliable storage, lots of free space for big projects. Backups are on separate disks from data. Ext4 over RAID seem happier without lvm. Maybe a few years down the road btrfs will be complete, I'll be able to switch to that. Only complications of above is a) careful monitoring of boot disk, b) with so many drives, chassis needs good air flow/power, and c) unless /tmp or /var put on lvm, all gentoo compiles are limited by i/o of boot disk (this isn't a problem for me now, but perhaps when I upgrade to faster cpus with more cores..). On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. =A0I'm about ready to >> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a >> spare to move things around with. =A0I use cp -a to copy things while >> booted from a USB stick do hicky. =A0So far, that has always worked and = is >> pretty fast. =A0I do have a question tho. >> >> When I copy this over, do I still need to copy over null, console and >> such to /dev? =A0I know I don't need everything in /dev but do recall >> needing those in the past. =A0Has this changed since I'm using the init >> thingy? =A0Am I forgetting one? =A0I thought there was three. >> >> Anything else that could be a gotcha? =A0I plan to move this twice. =A0O= nce >> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over >> again. =A0It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is >> the last time. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) =A0:-) >> > > > One more question. =A0Currently /usr is on / and that is the way it was > when I built the init thingy. =A0Do I need to rebuild the init thingy so > that it knows /usr is on a separate partition and will mount it or will > it know that when it reboots? > > Thanks again for all the help. =A0Already headed off a couple problems. > > Dale > > :-) =A0:-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or > how you interpreted my words! > > Miss the compile output? =A0Hint: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--quiet-build=3Dn" > --=20 Matthew Marlowe matt@professionalsysadmin.com https://www.twitter.com/deploylinux 1-805-857-9144