On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:30:16 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > Because you can't boot from an LV, so you'd than need a separate /boot > > and an initramfs. Without LVM, you are unlikely to be able to resize / > > or /usr as it is not usually the last partition on the drive. > > So, you guys want a separated /usr, but don't want a separate /boot. > Awesome.
I want as much as possible on LVM, and no initramfs. A small / and everything else on LVM fulfils that need. > >> Again, I don't see the reason for a separated /usr. > > > > That doesn't mean there aren't several valid reasons to do so. > > I didn't say they were invalid, I say that *I* don't see the reason to > separate /usr. The arguments exposed just don't convice me. But > anyway, you will be able to do it with an initramfs. No one is saying YOU should change your preferred setup. Please do us the same courtesy. Accept that we may have thought quite hard about what we want, what we need and how best to achieve it. How would you feel if you were told that you had to separate /usr, install extra packages, go through extra configuration steps and introduce more points of failure, just to do what you are already doing? > Then don't update. I can't decide whether this comment is arrogant or ingenuous. -- Neil Bothwick Today's subliminal message is: .
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