On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 03:35:10 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 4/12/2011 2:36 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > I had a link forwarded to me today, which may have a bearing on some > > problems I am having with an unrelated linux install. > > > > <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken> > > > > My emc install isn't broken in this manner as /usr is on /, but it > > still throws 31 errors using that sample command line given. I think > > it may need further fine tuning. > > > > But I know some of us, me included, have our own ideas about how a > > disk should be partitioned, so I thought I'd pass the link on just so > > the rest of you can check. > > > > This pclos install has 61 such errors when exec'ing the sample command > > line given in this link, and I find I have to completely reconfigure > > kde4.6.2 every time I reboot. Thats a right PIMA as you can imagine. > > ;-) > > > > I have gparted, ver 7.something, overhauling another drive for a > > system move. > > My snarky response is the old joke- > > Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." > > Doctor: "So stop doing it." > > My more serious response is, this problem is part and parcel with my > long running concern that the world of Linux developers is become > increasingly divorced from its roots. I understand how this particular > problem has arisen, but I'm appalled to see them take such a > corporate-manager position in response to their user-base complaints.
So am I, Kent. This is not the linux I jumped head first into in '97 or '98. As an old friend would say "Not by a hell of a long row of apple trees" OTOH, bear in mind that a corporate attitude is, like the camel with his nose in the tent, going to prevail for the simple reason that its corporate that pays many of these developers salaries. > This is the sort of guff I used to get from my > IBM/Microsoft/DEC/HP/<your favorite here> sales and field-service staff > back in the day. And which I have bellered about from/at both DEC and MS. There were several times when I gave them a piece of my mind that was so far gone it was, like the bad apple, spoiling the rest of the barrel. > I suppose technically it is possible to create a /usr directory on the > root partition and populate it with a core collection of programs so > they are available early in booting and then merge the rest of /usr from > another partition later on, but that's another PITA. Potentially much bigger than the one I seem to be having. I have considered setting up log, as a separate partition mounted to /var/log, but no one can tell me if when / goes read-only because something went tits down in the deep end of the pool, and /var was a dir on /, would log then be read-only too? I dunno. I can't reboot without using the reset button now, because /var is already unmounted when halt calls whatever is after swapoff -a, and halt can't get a lock, so the reboot is hung. Its BS ok, but it sure doesn't raise my corn crops by the acre yield... But, having been burnt by no logs on 2 crashes before, having /var as a dir on / (as fedora's installer demands) is simply not an option, I won't even discuss it. > Regards, > Kent Regards, Gene -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
