On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> wrote: > On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter<simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote: >> >> from >> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html >> 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".