On 04/15/2011 08:49 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 04/15/2011 12:22 AM, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: >> ok, so I was wrong about the webpage and the situation, well thanks, for >> your explanation the only thing to do is install the F15, live with it >> or try to do a workaround myself (I don't care if it's ugly) meanwhile >> works in my use case. > > You want an ugly workaround? How about keeping your separate /usr, but > keep a very stripped-down copy (just the stuff needed during boot) under > the /usr directory on your root file system. That will, of course, all > be hidden when the separate /usr file system gets mounted. well I don't mind a ugly workaround, meanwhile my system works. my current system F14 works, at least I don't see anything broken with it. if when I install F15: all works fine, well thats it. ( maybe will be lucky) if it's broken well time to look a workaround not necessarily this one I have workarounds in other parts of my Fedora systems, so a workaround more to keep the system working will be fine copying /usr/bin /bin to / will not work under my actual partition / is too small for them. but well maybe I can a create it a little bigger, and I'm familiar with bind mounts and rsync , so thanks by sharing this workaround > > OK, so how do you maintain the contents of that buried /usr while the > system is running? Time to get tricky with bind mounts: > > 1. Create a directory /usr0. > > 2. Arrange /etc/fstab so that the /usr directory gets bind mounted onto > /usr0 _before_ the real /usr gets mounted. (Note: I haven't done > any testing to see if you can actually ensure that the mounts get > done in this sequence during the auto mounting of local file > systems.) well mounting filesystems seems will be controlled by systemd too (maybe I'm wrong here too I read a 2010 long webpage), so mounting fs will be the same or change > > Now /usr0 is your window into that overlaid /usr directory. You can use > rsync with the "--existing" option to update just the files that you > placed in that root fs /usr. better leave out that flag, because if install new daemon will be not included. Gabriel > > If you ever umount /usr0, though, there's no way to regain access > without rebooting. > > As an extra-credit exercise, figure out how to set this up on a running > system without booting from a rescue disk. > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
