From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgNJ-0007m0-CD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:48:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63C0321C07F; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A04121C09C for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 617) id F3FCA1B400C; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:47:37 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:47:37 +0000 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Message-ID: <20120102114737.GA14841@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <20120101085326.GA1928@gentoo.org> <1325449307.12935.22.camel@TesterTop4> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1325449307.12935.22.camel@TesterTop4> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 799b9f76-2cc9-4d4e-b362-c02d41da84a4 X-Archives-Hash: bce783e2c1faeaf72e7b91ab2aa80fee On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 03:21:47PM -0500, Olivier Cr=EAte wrote: > > But if people really want to focus on initramfs, I'd appreciate some > > documentation help on it. Not only on how to create one, but also why= it is > > necessary, how to manage initramfs'es, the concepts underlying, etc. >=20 > Short version: use dracut. And how does dracut know which files it needs to mount my /usr?=20 Wkr, Sven Vermeulen