From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397AE1381F3 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70B6CE0E3E; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:55:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a68.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549FCE0DE7 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a68.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a68.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0EC8400F6B13 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 07:55:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=9uzeSyJrbgAyLoVMxhS12VLxAog=; b=M6/t4betw+u5 ikwiBBqeOkH6pF44PUH1+Elft/IcOa/sVAHkt/z2511qYo3ZaJpFCXDF3auPRPtU L3qetu0M6D4bGjvHIfThLBleIKDmRkRtMeelSl2cpIoEm28oE0y7qcqqgcv6HLOc OwOrxTXAU7sjrjP54JGSaBDqCSyZhKo= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a68.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 88B59400F6B0C for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 07:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52483F64.809@libertytrek.org> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:55:32 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 References: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> <20130927223916.GE23408@server> <52460D42.2080109@gmail.com> <52461056.9020604@gmail.com> <5246BE35.3010408@libertytrek.org> <5246E1F5.9050302@gmail.com> <52471BBA.1030600@googlemail.com> <20130928205042.6ee6db4b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130928205042.6ee6db4b@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a66bc76a-92a5-4c96-b465-d48483064aba X-Archives-Hash: 54f3dbd137afadf9cc63873c10eb6cef On 2013-09-28 3:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:11:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> To merge two filesystems, you just merge two filesystems. You don't >> rebuild anything. You might have some downtime though >> >> one reboot. You cp everything into /newuser. On shutdown you unmount >> /usr, mv newuser usr, sync, unmount, reboot. >> if you want to do it 'old fashioned', you cp everything to /newuser, >> reboot with systemrescuecd, mount / on /mnt/gentoo, my newuser to usr >> and reboot. Oh, and change fstab. > It's not that simple if /usr is on LVM, Mine is > / is not large enough to hold /usr But luckily, mine is - merging will leave about 5GB free (out of a total of 19GB for my / filesystem)... > and resizing the partition is really tricky. In that case, the > simplest option is to start using an initramfs. Once that is working, > you can get rid of the separate root partition and move that > filesystem into the VG too. Thanks, but I definitely don't want my / on LVM... ;)