On Friday, 15 September 2017 23:30:07 BST Daniel Campbell wrote: > If you have app-portage/gentoolkit (I highly recommend it) you can run > `equery d sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools` to find what's pulling it > in. It's probably lvm2, which is expected if you use LVM for anything. > If you don't have any need for it: > > * Add `USE="-lvm"` to make.conf to ensure you don't get LVM through IUSE > * Add `sys-fs/lvm2` to package.mask, but realize you may lose partial > functionality with some things, like net-fs/nfs-utils NFS v4.1 support. > * emerge --changed-use --ask @world > * emerge --ask --depclean > > or > > * Put `sys-fs/lvm2 -thin` in package.use, run `emerge --changed-use > --ask @world`, and go about your day.
I just have -thin in make.conf. It's still there because I haven't got round to removing it since building this box 18 months ago. The old box had LVM on twin disks and I didn't want thin provisioning, whereas this one just has a single SSD. -- Regards, Peter.
