Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 28/09/2013 00:57, Dale wrote: >> Bruce Hill wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Dale wrote: >>>> I'm hoping that since I use eudev, I don't have to worry about this. >>>> If I do, this could get interesting, again. Dale >>> Do you have /usr separate from / ? >> Yep. From my understanding tho, eudev is not supposed to be affected by >> this problem tho. >> >> One reason for this being seperate, I have / and /boot on a regular >> partition and everything else on LVM. Sometimes that /usr gets a bit >> full. It's not so bad after I moved all the portage stuff out and put >> it in /var. Now I have to watch /var too. lol > > Ask yourself this question: > > Why do you have /usr separate? > > No really, *why exactly*? > > One of the very first things you do with /usr at boot time is mount it, > and from then on you use it exactly as if it were always on / anyway. > I'll bet that since you moved all of portage out, your mount options and > fs configs are the same between the two anyway. So what exactly does a > separate /usr get you on a stabd-alone workstation buy you? I've been > looking at this for ages and conclude it buys me nothing but pain. They > don't even change much if /home and /var are elsewhere, so guage your > size right (easy to do) and never need look at it again. > > Separate /usr for the most part is an ancient artifact from decades ago. > It's useful in edge cases but not in the general case with modern > hardware. So why do people do it? I reckon it's inertia and nothign > more. Which is kinda silly as inertia ignores everythign else in the > environment that is changing around you (and *that* is a given). > > So unless you have something exotic like /usr mounted off a central > server, or want / on LVM (and your grub doesn't support lvm), you are > going to need an initramfs anyway to get around the circular bootstrap > problem. > > I say people should make their lives easier and just stick /usr on the > same volume as / and be done with it. It removes a whole lot of painful > scenarios that are going to keep on biting you as the rest of the world > moves on and progresses >
I answered that question already. I have / and /boot on regular partitions and EVERYTHING else on LVM. That includes /home, /usr and /var. /dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,commit=0) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/mapper/OS-usr on /usr type ext4 (rw,commit=0) /dev/mapper/OS-var on /var type ext4 (rw,commit=0) /dev/mapper/home-home on /home type ext4 (rw,commit=0) /dev/mapper/backup-backup on /backup type ext4 (rw,commit=0) I also have the backup partition but that is only needed when I make one. At any rate. I don't have some exotic hardware like a bluetooth keyboard and other such needless stuff. As someone else posted, some folks have different mount options for /usr that they do for others partitions. For me, I just want to keep it seperate so that I can adjust things with LVM if I need to. Something I have done a couple times I might add just since I started using LVM a few years ago. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
