Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 01:33:05 -0600
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) <prometheanfire@g.o> wrote:

> All of my systems currently have a seperate /usr that is mounted at
> boot.  Unfortunately I do agree that this is not something that we can
> fight.  This was brought up earlier and the only thing we can do
> for people like myself (who mount /usr at boot) is to create a simple
> initramfs that only has the purpose of mounting /usr at boot.  The
> main thing I don't like about initramfs is that we have to regenerate
> it any time we update the packages that get included in it.

Eh, I think I'll end up writing myself that four lines of shell code
for you which mounts /usr and runs init.

Or maybe I'll leave that task to you. Attaching my /init for
micro-initramfs on klibc. It looks like that:

├── bin
│   ├── ls
│   ├── mount
│   ├── run-init
│   └── sh
├── dev
│   ├── null
│   └── sda2
├── init
├── lib64
│   ├── klibc-MZ_9MGQEe6NFqmrPjRpy5i6WlV8.so
│   └── libc.so -> klibc-MZ_9MGQEe6NFqmrPjRpy5i6WlV8.so
├── newroot
└── proc

$ du -sh
176K	.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny