From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISVW2-0008QG-Fz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:20:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l84ACZ1U019820; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:12:35 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l84A5s9J011109 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:05:55 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE5D65ABC for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:05:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.108 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.108 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.109, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WXotkjTvKj9s for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A7F65C8B for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:05:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ISVHx-0003Ia-8S for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:05:41 +0200 Received: from blueboticspc1.epfl.ch ([128.179.67.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:05:41 +0200 Received: from remy.blank by blueboticspc1.epfl.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:05:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Remy Blank Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:05:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org> <20070902201502.4e612739@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200709022201.00036.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <20070902232047.GA29278@waltdnes.org> <20070903005717.27f14f6b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20070904102558.3f1140b3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA08FA4ADE5B1A2C2BE229B36" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: blueboticspc1.epfl.ch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <20070904102558.3f1140b3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: bb0c7ab0-0fe9-45c9-85bf-3922015c5fcd X-Archives-Hash: 5f471bce47abf31a6e8859bcdb040dd2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA08FA4ADE5B1A2C2BE229B36 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: >> There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need = to >> have an initrd (or initramfs). >=20 > Sshh! Don't tell the systems I've been running on LVM for years that th= ey > need an initrd or they'll all want one! Ha ha. I shouldn't have told mine, then they wouldn't have asked for one = ;-) > Just use a 300MB root partition, no separate /boot and put everything > else on LVM. Then all the tools you need are in /, so no initrd needed.= Understood. Thanks for the reply. -- Remy --------------enigA08FA4ADE5B1A2C2BE229B36 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFG3S3oCeNfIyhvXjIRAqvvAJsH2m2ZSaVk8GEdh6GPm1Vr72dh0ACfUVh7 +Ja2opbQD+lPQWnSTsfyzVU= =xGTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA08FA4ADE5B1A2C2BE229B36-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list