On 2013-09-29 2:25 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Tanstaafl wrote:
The way I see it, if you cannot provide a rational answer to that
question, then there is no reason for you to use this as a reason to
abandon gentoo, only a reason to merge /usr into /...
Simple, I have never had to resize / or /boot before. I have had to
resize /usr, /var and /home several times tho. THAT is the reason.
Ok, but... everything I've read and personal experience over the years
shows that space required for /usr should not change much, especially
constantly grow over time (like requirements for /home can and will)- it
may fluctuate (increase, decrease) *a little* over time, but it
definitely should not grow substantially, so, if you had to resize it,
most likely it is because you simply didn't allocate enough room to
start with.
For me, it doesn't matter if it is rational to YOU or not.
Sorry, but rationality is not subjective. Just because something seems
to be rational to you doesn't mean that it is.
You have still not stated a logical, rational reason for wanting a
separate /usr.
I am the one doing things on my puter not you or anyone else. If the
init thingy fails, that will be me staring at a error message, not
you.
I don't want one of those things either, but that isn't what I was
questioning you about.
Of course you can do whatever you want *and* are technically capable of
on your own computer, but that doesn't automatically make those things
logical or rational.
I did see one good case for a separate /usr (someone who was using
ancient PATA drives, and something about striping for performance), but
that was obviously a corner case...
