On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
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> 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.
>
Thank you for confirmation!!
So to changing the size of / and of /usr./
Is usrmerge a step on the way to having only two partitions
(ie / and /home)?
TIA
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