On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 03:45 -0600, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:03:44 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> Well, that is one of the things I want to change. I have several > >> reasons for wanting to change this mess. One is a file system change > >> and the other is to use LVM for stuff. I basically want LVM for > >> everything but root itself and /boot of course. > > > > If you're already using an initramfs to mount /usr, you may as well put > > root on LVM too and let it mount that too. Alternatively, have a small /, > > a few hundred MB, and no separate /boot. > > > > > > > That could be a good idea. I got other issues right now. > > I decided to do a fresh install on the larger drive. I sort of like to > brush up every once in a while. I got to the point where I want to do a > emerge -e system then copy my world file over and finish it up. It > appears that the stage3 tarball is in a state where not much can be > upgraded. Every time I try to update something, I get a list of blocks, > either packages or USE flags. > > I'm going to try to beat some sense into this a while longer then I'm > going to bed, right after rm -rfv /mnt/gentoo/* is started. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
ah LVM, dont you just love it ... just ran low on space on a /home partition across town. ok, reclaim some space from /var/data which at 1.4T has plenty to spare. Once Ive finished I noticed a "small" problem ... typed 1G instead of 1T when shrinking /var/data, and the 89Gb packet capture I had there is toast :( One of those "Ah F..." moments ... love backups. Billk
