On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> of lib and lib64 to /usr/lib, I'm basically ambivalent. I still don't like >> not being able to put /usr on a separate partition, I know there's a >> mkinitcpio hook to cover that, but I can see the logic in cleaning up the > > Thank you for a reasoned posting - one comment here about the issue of > /usr on a separate partition - if you put /usr on a separate partition > and then made a bind mount to / would that not work? I have not tried > it though! > > I have been doing this for /home which is a directory /opt/home and > /opt is a separate partition - I then bind mount it to /home as a > directory in the root partition. It has never given a problem so I > wondered if the analogous technique might work for /usr too? > Actually the answer to the /usr partition question seems to already be in the arch wiki at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Arch_integration "Warning: /usr must be mounted and available at bootup (this is not particular to systemd). If your /usr is on a separate partition, you will need to make accommodations to mount it from the initramfs and unmount it from a pivoted root on shutdown. See the mkinitcpio wiki page and freedesktop.org#separate-usr-is-broken" https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#.2Fusr_as_a_separate_partition http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken I should have read up on this before my previous post! -- mike c
