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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian



On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette:
> >> Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with
> >> the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available
> >> post-initramfs.  The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the
> >> systemd case as initscripts needs updates for sysvinit as was said
> >> elsewhere).  So no repartitioning should be required on upgrades.
> > As explained elsewhere in this thread, using initramfs is still not
> > mandatory in debian
> 
> an initramfs is not mandatory as long as you don't have /usr on a
> separate partition.
> No initramfs + split /usr is not supported and has been broken for a while.

I guess you meant "with systemd".  It does works with any other init system.

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