Thank you to everyone who responded and contributed to this topic. I appreciate it greatly! On 9/2/2011 11:27 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/01/2011 07:58 PM, Tom H wrote: >> 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". > > I tried setting up a system that way, but there are a couple of problems: > > 1) You have to patch rc.sysinit to fake an entry for /usr in /etc/mtab. > That's easy enough, and not necessary on distributions where /etc/mtab > is just a symlink to /proc/mounts. > > 2) You have to disable the automatic fsck of /usr. Because /usr is now > mounted, fsck will always fail regardless of the "clean" state of the > file system, and the special handling for the already-mounted root > file system seems to be hard-coded in the fsck binary and can not > be made to apply to /usr. >