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 0E14C1381F3 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33E97E09C1; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B999E0839 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newlap.localdomain (ool-182df6e9.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.246.233]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r99Dd0Fn005328 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 09:39:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by newlap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8BEDFA00E7; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 09:39:00 -0400 (EDT) From: gottlieb@nyu.edu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 References: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> <524759FB.2090304@gmail.com> <524869A5.4070306@libertytrek.org> <20130929185504.GA16543@linux1> <52487AD7.3080304@libertytrek.org> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:39:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <52487AD7.3080304@libertytrek.org> (tanstaafl@libertytrek.org's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:09:11 -0400") Message-ID: <8761t6zhqj.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 6a65ff94-f924-43ad-a458-f6c3fb355390 X-Archives-Hash: b4de2b91e4db6849a089264db61712e1 On Sun, Sep 29 2013, tanstaafl@libertytrek.org wrote: > On 2013-09-29 2:55 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> I am the OpenRC author/maintainer and a member of base-system. I can >> tell you that we are not discussing forcing systemd on everyone in >> Gentoo Linux as a default init system. I can also tell you that I am not >> aware of the Gentoo systemd team discussing this. Even if they were, a >> distro-wide change like this would have to be brought before the >> Council. > > Ok, good enough for me until other evidence comes along to cast doubt > as to the truthfulness or sincerity of your statement. > > Thanks William... > > Now to try to get up enough nerve to attempt to merge my /usr > (currently on LVM partition) into my / (does have enough room, and > will leave me with a 19GB / partition with about 5GB free). > > Anyone see a problem with that (only 5GB free on my / after the /usr merge)? I understand the need to get up nerve. That was the hardest part for me, and took by far, the most time. I did *not* have room in / for /usr but *did* have an online external disk on the machine with lots of room (Alan's "what I should have done" scheme). I could afford downtime so I did everything booted from an installation CD so that nothing would change. 1. Booted minimal installation CD 2. Copied my 5 lvs (/usr, /opt, /var, /tmp, /local) and my / to the external disk and called them old-root, old-usr, old-opt, old-var, old-tmp, old-local. 3. Repartitioned the internal disk to make root bigger. 4. Created the vg and pv (I have just one of each). 5. Created the 5 filesystems (root, /opt, /var, /tmp, /local), with the last 4 on LVM 6. Copied old-root to / and old-usr to /usr 7. Mounted the 4 lvs and copied old-opt to /opt, old-var to /var, ... Reboot It worked. Notes. 1. I had grub in the MBR so that didn't change 2. The root fs remained the same partition number (/dev/sda3), so didn't have to change grub. 3. In fact /dev/sda3 maintained the same starting location in the new partitioning scheme, but I don't think that was relevant. allan