This is not a new thing, it has been "broken" for quite a while. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken Sander On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Dwight Schauer <dschauer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been using Arch Linux for about 4 years now. I have it on a few > important systems at work and it has been doing very well. > > This morning I saw "/usr is not mounted. This is not supported." in my > boot up after a recent rc.sysinit update. > > What is this, bait and switch? I've been running Linux and BSD systems > since 1996 and typically always have /usr in a separate partition (as > well as /var, /home/ and /tmp, but lately been using a ram /tmp). > > Why does /usr even exist if it can't be on a separate partition? Why > not just combine /usr/lib and /lib? And /usr/bin and /bin? And > /usr/sbin and /sbin? Why have the distinction at all if it can't be on > separate partition? > > I understand that historically that /usr often use to be on different > drive, and that is not really an issue nowadays. Only this year have I > started not putting /usr into separate partitions because I've been > making thumbdrive installs, and did not really see any benefit to > making so many partitions (automatically created anyways, with a > custom install script). > > Does this "/usr is not mounted. This is not supported." mean I'm going > to have to eventually fix (dump/fix/restore) all my systems that are > now currently running fine (and that I and others are depending on at > my work) because Arch Linux no longer supports /usr on a different > partition (due to rc.sysinit failing, not just printing an error > message)? I run Arch Linux on more than 10 systems, and about 6 or 7 > of those are at work (where Arch has been working out very well). > > I'm not looking forward to redoing all these systems that are running > fine if this is where Arch is headed and rc.sysinit is not fixed to > take out this new requirement. > > I know this a bit of a rant, but this "/usr is not mounted. This is > not supported." error message is definitely not getting this day off > to a good start... > > Definitely not wanting to give up Arch for such a simple issue.... > > Dwight >
