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On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:31:37 -0500, 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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For /usr you don't need a live CD, because the contents of /usr shouldn't |
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change unless you instal/remove something. You can make sure they don't |
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change during the merge by remounting read-only |
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mount /usr -o remount,ro |
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mkdir /newusr |
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rsync -a /usr/ /new/usr/ |
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Comment out /usr line in /etc/fstab |
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mv /usr /oldusr |
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mv /newusr /usr |
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reboot |
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rmdir /oldusr |
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What you do with the old partition is up to you. In this case the |
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discussion was about /usr on LVM, so you just delete it and allocate the |
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space elsewhere when needed. |
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