Am 28.09.2013 17:06, schrieb Dale: > Michael Hampicke wrote: >> Am 28.09.2013 13:32, schrieb Tanstaafl: >>> On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> No really,*why exactly*? >>> >>> Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first >>> set this system up many years ago. >>> >> >> Where did you read that? According to the 2004 handbook the default >> partition scheme was: >> >> Partition Filesystem Size Description >> /dev/hda1 ext2 32M Boot partition >> /dev/hda2 (swap) 512M Swap partition >> /dev/hda3 ext3 Rest of the disk Root partition >> >> >> > http://web.archive.org/web/20040419042803/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 >> > > I guess I got mine from the handbook back in early 2003. That is when I > did my first install.
This is the default partition scheme from 2001 according to the handbook :-) Partition Size Type boot partition, containing kernel(s) and boot information ~100 Megabytes ReiserFS recommended, ext2 ok root partition, containing main filesystem (/usr, /home, etc) >=1.5 Gigabytes ReiserFS recommended, ext2 ok swap partition (no longer a 128 Megabyte limit) >=128 Megabytes Linux swap No seperate /usr either > > Also, as I stated, I have / and /boot on regular partitions and > everything else on LVM. Care to guess why I don't have / on a LVM too? > Yep, to avoid the init thingy. I don't have /boot on LVM because grub > didn't support it. > I know that you want the avoid an initramfs given your experience from mandrake lot's of years ago. The solution now is to merge /usr to / or risk that one day your system won't boot. I know that some changes are hard to overcome, but that does not mean you can look away :-)
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