On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:31:37 -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote: > Curious; how is merging two filesystems done? I don't have a separate > /usr and am completely unaffected by this change, but it's somewhat > interesting to me. /usr stores some pretty important data on it, and I > imagine you'd need to mount it somewhere else in order to move the > files from it to /'s /usr dir. Is a Live environment recommended > instead? How would you mitigate the leftover partition, assuming it's > not adjacent to /'s partition?
For /usr you don't need a live CD, because the contents of /usr shouldn't change unless you instal/remove something. You can make sure they don't change during the merge by remounting read-only mount /usr -o remount,ro mkdir /newusr rsync -a /usr/ /new/usr/ Comment out /usr line in /etc/fstab mv /usr /oldusr mv /newusr /usr reboot rmdir /oldusr What you do with the old partition is up to you. In this case the discussion was about /usr on LVM, so you just delete it and allocate the space elsewhere when needed. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 43: Genuine imitation
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