On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com wrote:
On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Mattersimon.matter@invoca.ch wrote:
from http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati... Do not place /usr on a separate partition If /usr is on a separate partition from /, the boot process becomes much more complex, and in some situations (like installations on iSCSI drives), might not work at all.
Thanks for this Tom. I was operating in old_schema mode and now I see I need to do a couple of re-installs as I did create /usr partitions. I do wonder why upstream left /usr as a suggestion in the partitioning program used inside of Anaconda?
I do believe that 6.0 has more core changes than any release I remember to date.
Good to find this out 'before' I got lots of stuff on that system!! ;) I can easily just copy my configs and start over.... way easier now than on a in service system!
You're welcome.
You must have forgotten the 4-5 transition and, for example, the expanded-selinux-by-default change that it brought. :)
The 6-7 transition will be interesting simply judging from F15 and F16: systemd and grub2. And most probably btrfs too.
I was pressed for time when I posted the two links. Poettering says in his blog that you can have "/usr" on a separate partition if you mount it in the initramfs. With dracut, it means using "--add fstab-sys" (or adding "fstab-sys" to the "/etc/dracut.conf" modules list) and creating an "/etc/fstab.sys" with a "/usr" line".