On Sunday 29 September 2013 14:45:05 Tanstaafl wrote: > 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.
Then what would be a correct size for the "/" partition when putting "/usr" on there as well? I have had no issues with giving "/" 500MB, "/boot" another 500MB and have everything else with minimal values on LVM and extending partitions without rebooting the machine whenever necessary. If I am now forced to put "/usr" on "/", detailed steps on how to migrate all my systems succesfully with minimal downtime would be appreciated. Along with a size-indication that will: 1) Always be sufficient 2) Not be a waste of valuable diskspace > > 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. Dale has, and so have I, see above. > > 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... Actually, it isn't a corner case. Striping increases performance, I use it as well. Why put all the software that I load when needed (and expect to be thrown out of memory when not used) on a single disk when you have the option to put all that on a RAID0 (striping) set? -- Joost
