On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 6:45 AM Martin Steigerwald <martin@???> wrote:
>
> o1bigtenor via Dng - 27.11.23, 13:34:38 CET:
> > Background:
> > Reading about the upcoming necessity of moving to 'usr merge'.
> >
> > My boxen (for at least the last 12 years if not longer) I run separate
> > partitions for (last number of years only this new one) /efi, /boot ,
> > /root (yes I know its a redundancy but it gets the label of /root ),
> > /swap, /usr. /var, and /home. (Not going into the
> > reasoning for such.)
> >
> > Question:
> > What am I supposed to do so that my system will continue to boot with
> > this change to /usr merge?
>
> "/usr" needs to be on the same filesystem as "/". It cannot be on a
> separate filesystem / partition anymore.
>
> Then you can install the package "usrmerge" to do the merge.
>
> Do not try to switch to install "usrmerge" package before having /usr be
> on filesystem for /.
>
> That is what I know at least.
>
> Meanwhile converted three machines by installing usrmerge package.
>
So - - - - for my system with not only each partition being separate
each partition is on a separate disk (Actually each partition is on a
raid 1 array (SDD) except for home which is on a raid 10 array (HDD).)
I will need to reinstall AND NOT have a separate /usr partition.

After that reinstall is completed can I use the usrmerge.

Is that my process?

(Apologies for any tender ears but this sounds like a male bovine
excrement pile of gargantuan proportions!)

TIA