From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 19:54:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc8173UoQP0i44FkR75U1m2y+3rbqhbihu8HaFoaCzn1Gcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120513024334.69bc9dd1@weird.wonkology.org>
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition.
How do you create your initramfs? The new udev (>= 182, I believe)
requires the use of an initramfs if you have a separated /usr.
> It was encrypted,
> and it seems there is no solution yet for this.
dracut has two modules, crypt and crypt-gpg, that maybe do what you are needing.
> so I moved it over to an
> unencrypted volume - no problem, /usr is one partition where encryption
> does not make that much sense anyway. Works, but after an unclean shutdown
> (reading files in /proc/<pid>/ was not a good idea) /usr wants to be
> fsck'ed. But it is already mounted at that stage.
That's the reason you need an initramfs.
> The boot process just continues, but I wonder what one should do to make
> the fsck run. Except for using a live cd.
With an initramfs.
> Maybe I should just enlarge my root partition and move /usr there, at
> least this would avoid all the trouble. But I'm used to many separate
> partitions, and like it that way.
You can have every directory under / on a different partition (even
/etc), if you use an initramfs.
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-13 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-13 0:43 [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr Alex Schuster
2012-05-13 0:54 ` Canek Peláez Valdés [this message]
2012-05-13 3:54 ` kwkhui
2012-05-13 4:25 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-05-13 10:46 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-13 12:27 ` Dale
2012-05-13 14:02 ` Philip Webb
2012-05-13 15:11 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-13 17:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-13 17:27 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-13 17:44 ` Neil Bothwick
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