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On 30/09/2013 12:27, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> On 09/30/2013 04:31 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 30/09/2013 01:31, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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>>> Curious; how is merging two filesystems done? I don't have a separate |
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>>> /usr and am completely unaffected by this change, but it's somewhat |
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>>> interesting to me. /usr stores some pretty important data on it, and I |
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>>> imagine you'd need to mount it somewhere else in order to move the |
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>>> files from it to /'s /usr dir. Is a Live environment recommended |
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>>> instead? How would you mitigate the leftover partition, assuming it's |
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>>> not adjacent to /'s partition? |
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>> Because /usr is continually in use, boot using a livecd of your choice. |
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>> In that environment, use fdisk (or whichever *disk you like) to make any |
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>> changes to partitions you know you will need. |
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>> Mount your gentoo / somewhere convenient |
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>> Mount your gentoo /usr somewhere convenient |
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>> copy the latter over to the former |
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>> edit fstab |
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>> reboot |
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>> It really is just a case of moving a large number of files around, but |
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>> because those very files are always in use you have to do it in livecd |
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>> environment. |
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>> There's no exact checklist one can follow to guarantee a 100% result |
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>> blindly. Instead, as this is Gentoo, we assume users built their system |
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>> knowing what they were doing and can appropriately deal with their |
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>> config themselves. RAID and LVM for example may need attention, but the |
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>> user is usually equipped to deal with that and knows what t do. |
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>>> I don't run an initramfs, thankfully, but I keep a pretty simple |
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>>> system in terms of filesystems: /, /boot, and /home. |
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> My suspicions were mostly correct, then. If the merge is that simple, I |
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> see no reason not to do it if one doesn't want to roll an initramfs. |
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> However, I imagine moving partitions around in gparted or something |
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> similar would be quite a wait if / and /usr weren't adjacent on the drive. |
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Indeed, this is the part where it can get hairy, and it all totally |
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depends on how the user decided to lay out their partitions. |
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Eyeballs and brains form the solution here, not computers and scripts :-) |
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> Thanks for the simple-but-thorough explanation. :) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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