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 113C31381F3 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45E98E0BB3; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22306E0B92 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:35:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id l18so5205605wgh.4 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:35:47 -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=R/HRmhXhH9IM3TGF+dF373EfjOPK0jO2kFj7UhnJTwI=; b=Fn8WQoJrtyWR/X6gHHhGWJkG8oFkPO8dWinHyWhMSQ8ncTqvMeKTxcv6kBv7Kx6VfJ lRGZCbAOniuewvVBFqDbDzNuav+WnzO0uA51VL9BnTYb4BTwlQnMrWVILa3+Z/2x6sQN kKNE7LuDsY+BysT7M5RR8uy+Q+Y/kYUu6sH/MwHgvj7+eupkOPbjB6bHN0xWsNbwf2hx EpAvJQ//7MgzOR6OYUpEMU/EvgDN6j+s1/dTiC2ZKxjXt795PLWLU2XqA0W0ujh5/Cng BdtslEup8gmHEtVE4fxzlUi2MZfjLzNVCWGsU3EK93M20C+PUj2vfUrIOaekebpjETnO UyKQ== X-Received: by 10.180.198.44 with SMTP id iz12mr13078336wic.32.1380533747799; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.197] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fb9sm24123853wid.7.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <524944E4.8050907@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:31:16 +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> <52461056.9020604@gmail.com> <5246BE35.3010408@libertytrek.org> <5246E1F5.9050302@gmail.com> <5248B859.4040207@sporkbox.us> In-Reply-To: <5248B859.4040207@sporkbox.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ecc3fd0a-daae-4fec-8ccd-478c40733f1b X-Archives-Hash: c7566e4a8c2e2637fedb64ef5f3563d3 On 30/09/2013 01:31, Daniel Campbell wrote: > Curious; how is merging two filesystems done? I don't have a separate > /usr and am completely unaffected by this change, but it's somewhat > interesting to me. /usr stores some pretty important data on it, and I > imagine you'd need to mount it somewhere else in order to move the > files from it to /'s /usr dir. Is a Live environment recommended > instead? How would you mitigate the leftover partition, assuming it's > not adjacent to /'s partition? Because /usr is continually in use, boot using a livecd of your choice. In that environment, use fdisk (or whichever *disk you like) to make any changes to partitions you know you will need. Mount your gentoo / somewhere convenient Mount your gentoo /usr somewhere convenient copy the latter over to the former edit fstab reboot It really is just a case of moving a large number of files around, but because those very files are always in use you have to do it in livecd environment. There's no exact checklist one can follow to guarantee a 100% result blindly. Instead, as this is Gentoo, we assume users built their system knowing what they were doing and can appropriately deal with their config themselves. RAID and LVM for example may need attention, but the user is usually equipped to deal with that and knows what t do. > > I don't run an initramfs, thankfully, but I keep a pretty simple > system in terms of filesystems: /, /boot, and /home. > -- Alan McKinnon Systems Engineer^W Technician Infrastructure Services Internet Solutions +27 11 575 7585 -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com