Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr partition

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:09:59 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:50:45 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I'm thinking of separating /usr onto its own partition so that I can
> > have it mounted read-only except while updating it. I'd prefer not to
> > have to make an init thingy, not having needed one up to now. Besides,
> > some machines have things like early-ucode or amd-uc.
> 
> Most of this has already been answered, except for your final point. You
> can load more than one initrd at boot, so you can still apply microcode
> updates. For example, with systemd-boot
> 
> title	Desktop
> version	5.15.59-gentoo
> linux	/vmlinuz-5.15.59-gentoo
> options	root=LABEL=blah blah
> initrd	/amd-uc.img
> initrd	/initramfs-5.15.59-gentoo.img
> 
> I use dracut to create the initrd, which is so straighforward even Dale
> can't break it ;-)

:)

That seems to be the way to go then - even dinosaurs die out in the end. 
Perhaps Dale will show us the command he referred to.

Thank you all for your help.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.