On Sat, Nov 08, 2025 at 07:04:24AM -0600, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> 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.

The end result of usrmerge is that a) everyting in /bin, /sbin, /lib*
get moved to /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/lib* (correspondingly), and
the previous directories /bin, /sbin and /lib* become symbolic links
to /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib* (correspondingly).

Partition usages change accordingly.

Ralph.