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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] running with separate / and /usr
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:22:43PM +0000, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:
> karl@??? writes:
>
> [Fix Chimera update issue]
>
> > b, Even if not, is their interest for making it again possible?
> >
> > If only for Chimera, no; otherwise, yes, as shown in my
> > expansions into completely unrelated topics.
>
> As it stands, an updated Chimera system will fail to boot unless / and
> /usr are on the some partition. That's not documented in the release
> notes and that's a serious issue for everyone who might become affected
> by it. Undocumented features with seriously negatively consequences are
> by definition bugs.


So it's been a good thing I haven't updated by beowulf server to chimaera.
It has separate /use from / for more than a decade now. And it won't be possible without major repartitoning.

-- hendrik