[gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
On 03/17/2012 12:40 PM, pk wrote: On 2012-03-17 19:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don't see any reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empty. So what? Put everything on one partition and go on. Yes, let's do away with partitions altogether, who needs them? When I was in school the (Winchester) disk drives were the size of a hotel mini-bar and the, um, diskettes the size of a stack of four or five large pizza boxes which had to be carried with both hands. I never asked how much these toys cost, but I'm guessing it would be roughly a year's salary for most people. Now multiply that by the number of partitions you need to mount simultaneously. That was the reason for separate / and /usr back then -- the school didn't want to buy multiple Winchesters when they could get the sysadmin to swap multiple diskettes during bootup, and let the student health service cover the cost of his hernia repair :p
[gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
On 17/03/12 06:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: This item just appeared after eix-sync: HTPC ~ # eselect news read 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking Title udev-181 unmasking AuthorWilliam Hubbswilli...@gentoo.org Posted2012-03-16 Revision 1 udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19. This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of udev=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr. An initramfs which does this is created by =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. Also, if you are using OpenRC, you must upgrade to= openrc-0.9.9. For more information on why this has been done, see the following URL: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. Houston, we have a problem! No, we don't. I hope systemd arrives soon. It's the best init system I ever saw.
[gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:10:35 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: 4) I don't use a separate /usr so I don't need any of this. I suspect most casual Gentoo users like me are pretty much the same. 4) I am going to look at doing a dual boot Gentoo install on some system here at home to try this out. Damn, I don't have time for this but what choice are they giving me. 4 ;) If your /usr doesn't have its own partition, you shouldn't need to sweat any of this. AIUI, only people with separate /usr need to either build an initrd or work out an alternative to udev.
