On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:22:20 -0600, o1bigtenor wrote in message
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> 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.

..an hard No on my part.

> > 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!)

..is this when we found out we need an upgrade-to-Slackware
Devuan package?

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