Greetings

So as it is necessary to run usrmerge before one can upgrade to
excalibur I did just that on my 'testbed' system and have some
questions.

Before:
system set up with partitions for /, swap, /usr, /usr/local, /var, and /home
/      with 8.5G used out of 23.3G available
/usr with 17.8G used out of 24.3G available

using gparted (from a systemrescue disk)
moved and resized
/    to 70G

ran usrmerge with the result

/      with 3.1G used out of 69G available
/usr with 23G used out of 25G available

(above numbers found using df -h or lsblock)

So - - - questions

My expectation was that / usage would increase - - - was I ever wrong
rather / usage decreased dramatically (less than 1/2 the size of previous)
/usr seems to acquired most if not all of what is no longer in / .

Is this 'normal' ?

(If it is then I need to shrink / down and increase /usr significantly.)

Please advise so that I can proceed with my upgrade to excalibur.

TIA