On Sun, Sep 29 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
> On 2013-09-29 2:55 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I am the OpenRC author/maintainer and a member of base-system. I can
>> tell you that we are not discussing forcing systemd on everyone in
>> Gentoo Linux as a default init system. I can also tell you that I am not
>> aware of the Gentoo systemd team discussing this. Even if they were, a
>> distro-wide change like this would have to be brought before the
>> Council.
>
> Ok, good enough for me until other evidence comes along to cast doubt
> as to the truthfulness or sincerity of your statement.
>
> Thanks William...
>
> Now to try to get up enough nerve to attempt to merge my /usr
> (currently on LVM partition) into my / (does have enough room, and
> will leave me with a 19GB / partition with about 5GB free).
>
> Anyone see a problem with that (only 5GB free on my / after the /usr merge)?
I understand the need to get up nerve. That was the hardest part for
me, and took by far, the most time. I did *not* have room in / for /usr
but *did* have an online external disk on the machine with lots of room
(Alan's "what I should have done" scheme). I could afford downtime so I
did everything booted from an installation CD so that nothing would
change.
1. Booted minimal installation CD
2. Copied my 5 lvs (/usr, /opt, /var, /tmp, /local)
and my / to the external disk and called them old-root, old-usr,
old-opt, old-var, old-tmp, old-local.
3. Repartitioned the internal disk to make root bigger.
4. Created the vg and pv (I have just one of each).
5. Created the 5 filesystems (root, /opt, /var, /tmp, /local), with the
last 4 on LVM
6. Copied old-root to / and old-usr to /usr
7. Mounted the 4 lvs and copied old-opt to /opt, old-var to /var, ...
Reboot
It worked.
Notes.
1. I had grub in the MBR so that didn't change
2. The root fs remained the same partition number (/dev/sda3),
so didn't have to change grub.
3. In fact /dev/sda3 maintained the same starting location in the new
partitioning scheme, but I don't think that was relevant.
allan
