Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition
On Thursday 30 October 2014 10:27:50 Hans wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
>
> completely without starting any flamewars:
>
> I am using systemd and I have /usr mounted on a separate partition as well
> as /var, /home, /boot and /.
>
> Additionally /usr, /var and /home are luks encrypted.
>
> Due to this profile, I get a lot of annoying errors, as systemd does not
> find /usr when it is started, because it produces an error and then
> switches to verbose mode. This is very annoying!
>
> For a new installation it might be ok, to put /usr on the root partition,
> but I guess, there are a lot of systems in the world running a partition
> profile like mine.
>
> Besides of the mentioned problem systemd is running well.
>
> I thought about this problem. Might it be possible, to change systemd in
> that way, that it will start after all partitions are mounted? I know, it
> must be done in the source code, but as I am no coder, I cannot do it
> myself.
>
> So I ask the developers hereby, maybe it wil be possible to do that.
>
> Again, I do not want to start any flamewars! IMO each user should decide for
> himself, what he wants to use. I want to use systemd, and I just intend
> with this message to improve systemd.
>
> Thank you very much for reading this and any help.
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
I think this problem should be resolved. I know the newer desirable keeping of
/usr on /. However, I would bet 99% of existing multi-partition Debian
installations have usr on a separate partition. Historically and even recent
installations (not that I like the partitioning done by the installer, but
...) I may move mine soon once I resolve some disk hardware issues but I
should not have to do this just to get rid of a superfluous "fail" message and
switch to verbose mode.
Aside from this issue, I am running systemd just fine!
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