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 1STccm-00020q-Bf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 May 2012 17:30:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C6DCE0710; Sun, 13 May 2012 17:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADBEE0764 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 17:27:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-128-12.netcologne.de [78.35.128.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F3BFDC041 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 19:27:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 19:27:07 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr Message-ID: <20120513192707.000ec6a7@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120513180838.7481db56@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <20120513024334.69bc9dd1@weird.wonkology.org> <20120513140210.GA3063@ca.inter.net> <20120513171155.09993b48@weird.wonkology.org> <20120513180838.7481db56@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d21dadc9-fee0-43b9-9c5a-9acea08e3492 X-Archives-Hash: 61e7a5de83c1a1e496a7af3101929a8b Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:11:55 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > # copy data over > > rsync -ax /usr /tmp/bindroot/ > > It would be wise to remount /usr read-only before doing this. Yes, as written a few lines above what you quoted :) > > No need for downtime except for the reboot, I guess I cannot > > unmount /usr otherwise. > > You could drop to single user mode to unmount /usr, but as that involves > stopping and restarting just about every service, it is just as > convenient to reboot... Probably much much more convenient. I even guess the downtime of any service would actually be less. > unless you are aiming for some sort of uptime record. The record is about 420 days, and it will last for a while. So rebooting every few weeks is okay :) But it's cool that I _could_ do this without a reboot. Wonko