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 088881381F3 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B5AFE0C43; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 160B7E0C35 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id q59so5244121wes.27 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:44:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6jQ9fEWFvKdoz6xmLjP+nOPLEmOgj1j19JSvmEH+m2w=; b=uZV03RHeiOLKqeFu4Td1TEO61+rZk8ToJHraZPTN2gxwurBkAiBTrsn91xB/Ij/sG7 vrnArUPeLAV1FNdn9QaHH7HK10vE+Y29xUOfmbYN7K0CTEtIClUK9ZFLGIjokdBkRSCx +1vUVOCSRb31xNYFUm1E+KLWBdYBfFN7fb0RTSz9OZaz2H1CF37inUs+pO3ql05SnetB jTo/Zx+vj1FRPqaEf5ld8C1JKEUYfsiOIFCoyQ0Utz4lg6odka0EZnZWsnyCP99AJsfV GPdKdoeMyMKt4ZWSyRerhsQORmRQ5qMIKFM2AE3AsqsKEX5FH1HqkCE5AzY90O/lw1M/ d1dA== X-Received: by 10.180.219.33 with SMTP id pl1mr12691164wic.49.1380527067778; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.197] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b11sm23260843wik.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52492ACC.2060006@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:39:56 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; 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> <20130928003220.GF23408@server> <20130928160159.GA4247@linux1> <5247128D.3030801@gmail.com> <5248BA8B.2050004@sporkbox.us> In-Reply-To: <5248BA8B.2050004@sporkbox.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bde3439a-11fa-447d-a7a0-9f5944c84bb8 X-Archives-Hash: 9b1e6d7882df5af44533d8c14e1834a1 On 30/09/2013 01:40, Daniel Campbell wrote: > The best path for you seems to be a merge of / and /usr. I asked Alan > how to do this since he seemed knowledgeable about it. If he replies, > maybe his advice will be handy and save you a lot of trouble. It seems > clear to me that you want to avoid trouble, but looking at your options, > putting /usr in / is probably the least painful thing you can do, and it > won't require an initramfs. I don't like initramfs's either, but that's > because I'm lazy and don't like maintaining more than two things (kernel > and GRUB config) in order to boot. I think I replied so a similar question from tanstaafl already, but basically all you need to do is boot with a rescue disk, mount /usr somewhere else and copy everything in it to the usr/ directory on / But the devil is in the details and if anything will trip you up it's the extact contents you have there and how much space you have available. I don't know of any script around that automates it, so human eyeballs is what it will take. If you post the output of df -h, du -sh /usr, du -sh /usr/*, mount, and the contents of fstab, loads of folks here can tell you how to proceed. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com