Re: SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 Dec 2013 14:41:44 Tanstaafl wrote:
 On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
  Current command I'll be using:
  
  rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /mnt/gentoo/oldusr/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/
 
 Well, that was about as uneventful as it gets...
 
 Took all of 6 minutes (and almost all of that was rsyncing /usr)...

Glad it went well. Now for the next hurdle, eh?  :-)

-- 
Regards
Peter




SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-08 Thread Tanstaafl

On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

Current command I'll be using:

rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /mnt/gentoo/oldusr/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/


Well, that was about as uneventful as it gets...

Took all of 6 minutes (and almost all of that was rsyncing /usr)...

Made a forum post in case anyone else wants to do this and may be a 
little hesitant like I was...


http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7457324.html#7457324

Thanks to all who patiently answered my questions...

I now have /usr merged back into / and no longer have to choose between 
using an intramfs (which I vehemently did not want to do) and updating 
my system without fear of breakage.


whew