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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:09:22
Message-Id: 87fvqavojk.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time... by Tanstaafl
1 On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org wrote:
2
3 > On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, gottlieb@×××.edu <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 >> On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org wrote:
5 >>> So, here's the plan, please check me...
6 >>>
7 >>> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
8 >>>
9 >>> 2. Mount / and create new /usr directory
10 >
11 >> I am missing something. I would have thought your old / (dev/sda3)
12 >> already has an empty /usr directory where you previously mounted
13 >> /dev/vg/usr
14 >
15 > Hmmm... I guess you're right, although I guess I'd have realized that
16 > as soon as I mounted / to /mnt/gentoo and did an ls...
17 >
18 >>> 4. Copy /oldusr to /usr
19 >
20 >> This suggests that your current root (dev/sda3) is big enough to
21 >> include the previous /usr (dev/vg/usr).
22 >
23 > Yep, plenty of room...
24 >
25 > Are you saying you went through this too?
26
27 Yes I did, but did not have the room to simply stick /usr into /.
28 Like you I had lvm.
29
30 > Hopefully a few others will chime in with more on the exact rsync
31 > arguments I should use...
32 >
33 > Thanks Allan... :)
34
35 My pleasure.
36 allan