On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:02:31 -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> 1) make backups and... 1.a) verify backups... consider this my
> disclaimer... 2) mkdir /mnt/root-bind/ /mnt/usr-bind/
> 3) mount --bind / /mnt/root-bind/
> 4) mount --bind /usr/ /mnt/usr-bind/
4a) mount /usr -o remount,ro
Makes sure not
On 03/21/2012 03:02 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> 1) make backups and... 1.a) verify backups... consider this my disclaimer...
> 2) mkdir /mnt/root-bind/ /mnt/usr-bind/
> 3) mount --bind / /mnt/root-bind/
> 4) mount --bind /usr/ /mnt/usr-bind/
> 5) rsync --archive --hard-links --sparse --progress /mnt
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> On 03/18/2012 06:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On that note - is it possible, and if so, does anyone have any decent
>> detailed How-to's on how I might be able to convert a separate /user to
>> one on directly on / on a running system?
>
>
On 03/20/2012 09:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> If you keep a separate directory for your initramfs files, this is true.
> But if your initramfs config is a list of files to include, the current
> versions of everything will always be included.
Fair point.
Best,
Sebastian
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:28:20 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> A manual initramfs is not that easy, no. And it becomes outdated more
> easily than an initramfs-creator-based approach.
If you keep a separate directory for your initramfs files, this is true.
But if your initramfs config is a list
On 03/18/2012 06:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
>
> I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
While genkernel also can generate kernel configs for you, both dracut
and genkernel are initramfs creators: they take repeated creation (after
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:57:39 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
> > > How do I find out if I am actually *using* an initramfs right now
> > > (I know it
> > > is built into the kernel), and
>
> ls -l /boot/ will tell you.
No it won't, as the initramfs can be built into the kernel image.
>
On March 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl
wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
> >
> > I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
> >
> > I have a remote system that has /usr on a s
Tanstaafl wrote:
> Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of
> the follow-ups...
>
> I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe
> I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me
> forever as a gentoo user (I'm sure none o
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
[snip]
> Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
>
> I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
>
> I have a remote system that has /usr on a separate partition.
>
> So...
>
> How do I find out if I am actually *using* a
Tanstaafl writes:
> On 2012-03-17 12:11 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
> wrote:
> > An initramfs which does this is created by
> >> =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or
> >> =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be
> > sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr.
>
> Ok, I h
On 18-Mar-12 18:44, Tanstaafl wrote:
How do I find out if I am actually *using* an initramfs right now (I
know it is built into the kernel),
Just guessing: If you do not know, then you are probably not using it...
Jarry
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:44:07PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of
> the follow-ups...
>
> I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe
> I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me
Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of
the follow-ups...
I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe
I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me
forever as a gentoo user (I'm sure none of you are crying over tha
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