| 1 |
On 2013-09-28 3:50 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:11:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
>> To merge two filesystems, you just merge two filesystems. You don't |
| 5 |
>> rebuild anything. You might have some downtime though |
| 6 |
>> |
| 7 |
>> one reboot. You cp everything into /newuser. On shutdown you unmount |
| 8 |
>> /usr, mv newuser usr, sync, unmount, reboot. |
| 9 |
>> if you want to do it 'old fashioned', you cp everything to /newuser, |
| 10 |
>> reboot with systemrescuecd, mount / on /mnt/gentoo, my newuser to usr |
| 11 |
>> and reboot. Oh, and change fstab. |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
> It's not that simple if /usr is on LVM, |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
Mine is |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
> / is not large enough to hold /usr |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
But luckily, mine is - merging will leave about 5GB free (out of a total |
| 20 |
of 19GB for my / filesystem)... |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
> and resizing the partition is really tricky. In that case, the |
| 23 |
> simplest option is to start using an initramfs. Once that is working, |
| 24 |
> you can get rid of the separate root partition and move that |
| 25 |
> filesystem into the VG too. |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
Thanks, but I definitely don't want my / on LVM... ;) |
Archives