From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1STN6n-0005AU-Uq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 May 2012 00:56:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79E9EE09B6; Sun, 13 May 2012 00:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D77E0764 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 00:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhjj72 with SMTP id j72so4465560yhj.40 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 17:54:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OmELGfZhB0IB47RWSnP9Fc5LqWh7MMuyGCpSA8xpa/w=; b=dRch9QqB6F1zxHqZVx0P0iwKb1XeLdD8grYVlXOQi5WQL4Jst8nlR1CJXOH5YLlmVH 0T6IuhWeXB5xQpCrfSBwpn0uGl2pcy3SPEIP0YBYX5F2XMcb0N/a1toYdsQgOozXQzu9 3Sp4tKdm/tQjqHE01GwgZ6bhOM32gbipPsEXTaYFTHHXWczq+4b2fsAg8ARhLLlfeuOG FCauHztAT7F45oWRqrr/CYXcATHIkJO9wdp2RHRy42UZbWCPIOp09te5ZWLyK40p5x6R uDqVYjTgNXW/akb2E/b33GNSjO7inl3cAewO4JYjqBVuI03GPStKmIiQoc9Bo7lSDZes y+nQ== 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 Received: by 10.101.176.22 with SMTP id d22mr993142anp.15.1336870464419; Sat, 12 May 2012 17:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.4.12 with HTTP; Sat, 12 May 2012 17:54:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120513024334.69bc9dd1@weird.wonkology.org> References: <20120513024334.69bc9dd1@weird.wonkology.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 19:54:24 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4bd26aa9-c23d-4888-98c2-2efbf4622799 X-Archives-Hash: 3e4d796f0aa5bfd627e6ac888faecabf On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition. How do you create your initramfs? The new udev (>=3D 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 nee= ding. > 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 shutdow= n > (reading files in /proc// 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. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico