Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-09-29 11:24 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Dale - I'm honestly curious, what is your reason, philisophical or >>> technical, for wanting a separate /usr? >>> >>> Everything I've read says there is no good reason for it today. >>> Separate /home, /tmp, /var, yes, good reasons for t hose... but not >>> /usr... >>> >>> So, again - why would you prefer switching distro's over merging /usr >>> back into / and be done with it? > >> The reason is the same I have posted before. I have / and /boot on >> regular partitions. Everything else is on LVM. I don't have / on LVM >> because it would require a init thingy. I don't have /boot on LVM >> because grub doesn't or didn't support it. I have since switched to >> grub2 so it may but still have the issue with / so no need redoing >> everything for that. > > Well, I don't see a *reason* to WANT to have /usr on a separate > partition. I see only THE reason that you have it there NOW. > > Also, logically speaking, if the stated reason for not having / (or > /boot) on separate LVM partitions is because it would require an init > thingy, then why can't you simply add /usr to that reason? > > Again, I'm asking for why you WANT it on a separate LVM partition, not > why it is there now. > > The way I see it, if y ou 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. For me, it doesn't matter if it is rational to YOU or not. 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 hope that clears it up for you. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
