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現在、Gentoo Linuxをインストールしています。第一歩よりLVMを使うことは、かっこいいです。わい！LVM！わい！

Since most of the people reading this LJ don't actually speak Japanese, I'll say that again. "I'm currently installing Gentoo Linux. Being able to use LVM from the start is really cool. Wai! LVM! Wai!"

Anyhow, some random observations for anyone who's thinking about it in the future:

XFree86 takes forever and a day to build. Also, the build process uses at least 600 MB of disk space, and that was just when I was looking, so /var/tmp should probably have at least a gig available.
Those of you who have never used a Sun may wonder what the heck /opt is about. The Java subsystem is the only software that's shown up there so far; we'll see what else uses it.

In /etc/make.conf, you might be forgiven for thinking that the += operator would work. It doesn't, but USE flags can be specified on multiple lines, like so:

USE="acl apache2 avi bidi cdr cjk crypt cups curl doc emacs emacs-w3 encode ethereal freewnn
        gdbm gif imap ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit leim maildir mbox mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses 
        nls odbc oggvorbis ppds pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime qt readline ruby
        lang snmp spell ssl tcltk tetex tiff truetype unicode usb wxwindows X xface xml xml2
        zlib evms2"

Some usage figures for the above USE flags: (install still in progress; will be updated later)

Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3                  244        45       199  19% /mnt/gentoo
/dev/hda1                   92         1        87   1% /mnt/gentoo/boot
/dev/vg/opt               1024       110       914  11% /mnt/gentoo/opt
/dev/vg/tmp                512        33       480   7% /mnt/gentoo/tmp
/dev/vg/usr               2048       957      1092  47% /mnt/gentoo/usr
/dev/vg/usrlocal          5120        33      5088   1% /mnt/gentoo/usr/local
/dev/vg/var               1024        52       973   6% /mnt/gentoo/var
/dev/vg/varlog             512        33       480   7% /mnt/gentoo/var/log
/dev/vg/varmail           2048        33      2016   2% /mnt/gentoo/var/mail
/dev/vg/home              2048        33      2016   2% /mnt/gentoo/home

My plans for this box involve qmail+vpopmail, Apache2+mod_perl+HTML::Mason, PostgreSQL, and... TBD, I guess. So many choices, so little time.