On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 17:53, Peter G Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 00:44:02 Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Peter G Nikolic > > > > <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 23:59:29 Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > >> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:42 PM, P NIKOLIC < > p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > wrote: > > >> > Hi . > > >> > > > >> > Well still fighting it how does one go about putting /usr on a > > >> > seperate > > >> > drive i can not seem to get it right just complains about /usr > mounted > > >> > unable to e2fsck cannot continue and falls to maintenance mode i > cant > > >> > unmount the drive because it contains /usr how do im get rount that > one > > >> > these days .. > > >> > > > >> > Pete . > > >> > > >> Have you read > > >> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#.2Fusr_as_a_separate_part > > >> it > > >> ion ? > > > > > > yep .. have to admit not making a lot of sense > > > > Post your HOOKS. > > Hi . > > Right now i have given up on the seperate /usr , can i safely move > /usr/share > to another drive and symlink it to /usr/share . > > I have it up and working again but the disk is showing 100% full > /usr/share > seems to be quite large /usr/src has already been moved and symlinked > > Pete . > > -- > Powered by Kernel: 3.2.2-1-ARCH > KDE Development Platform: 4.8.00 (4.8.0 > 23:50:10 up 15 min, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.18, 0.27 > > I had the same problem. Mkinitcpio now provides two hooks to allow one to keep /usr on a separate partition, the fsck and shutdown hooks. By adding these hook to mkinitcpio.conf it solved my problem. Kudos to those who work on mkinitcpio. HOOKS="base udev fsck autodetect pata scsi sata shutdown filesystems usbinput" Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
