On 11/29/23 06:19, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> (I am trying to understand this stuff - - - argh - - - -computers have
> been tools for me - - - - argh!).
>
> So If this is what I see in /var/log/boot :
>
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: Starting boot logger: bootlogd
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: ^@Setting up keyboard layout...done.
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: Activating swap...done.
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: Checking file systems...fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: /dev/nvme0n1p2: 8 files, 11893/479892 clusters
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: /boot: clean, 356/61056 files, 57802/243968 blocks
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: /tmp: clean, 1645/305216 files, 266385/1219328 blocks
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: /usr/local: clean, 8738/305216 files,
> 310861/1219328 blocks
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: /var: clean, 14413/610800 files, 667782/2439168 blocks
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: done.
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023: Cleaning up temporary files....
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:51 2023: Loading kernel module lp.
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:51 2023: Loading kernel module ppdev.
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:51 2023: Loading kernel module parport_pc.
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:51 2023: Loading kernel module nct6775.
> Wed Nov 15 06:01:51 2023: Mounting local filesystems...done.
>
> is this the booting into an initramfs? (Wed Nov 15 06:01:50 2023:
> /dev/nvme0n1p2: 8 files, 11893/479892 clusters )

/var/log/boot will not help you find out if you are running from an
initramfs, you can use "sudo dmesg | grep initram" for that. In my case
that shows:  "[    0.554999] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs..."

What is interesting from your boot log, is that you have /usr as part of
the root filesystem, at least for this machine, so usrmerge shouldn't be
a problem for this particular machine.  You have a separate /usr/local,
but your usr seems to be part of /dev/nvme0n1p2

Check /etc/fstab  it should tell you if /usr is in a separate partition
or not.  You might do this with:  "grep usr /etc/fstab | grep -v usr.local"

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