On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 8:43 PM Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> o1bigtenor via Dng said on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 06:34:38 -0600
>
> >Greetings
> >
> >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?
> >
> >(What I've read so far is that people - - - well they just do it - - -
> >- well what are they doing?)
>
>
> Hi o1bigtenor,
>
> I'm speaking for Linux, not for the Debian or Devuan packaging...
>
> If you choose to have your /usr on a separate partition mounting on
> mountpoint /usr, it should be no problem at all because your initramfs
> will boot off its own OS, and then mount /dev/sda5 /usr, and then
> pivotroot back to the hard disk, which now has /usr mounted in the
> correct place. No big deal: It's been done for years: Long before
> usrmerge.
>
> Now of course if a specific distro's packaging system and installer has
> a problem with such a setup, you'll need to do some DIY on that distro.
> But I doubt even Debian is stupid enough to seriously bork this
> customary technique.
>

Thanks mr Steve - - - - over time I guess I will find out - - - have had a very
stable system ever since install (except for graphics but then there I'm asking
for a whole bunch! - - - grin!).

Regards