On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm using the new udev with a separate /usr partition.
How do you create your initramfs? The new udev (>= 182, I believe) requires the use of an initramfs if you have a separated /usr. > It was encrypted, > and it seems there is no solution yet for this. dracut has two modules, crypt and crypt-gpg, that maybe do what you are needing. > so I moved it over to an > unencrypted volume - no problem, /usr is one partition where encryption > does not make that much sense anyway. Works, but after an unclean shutdown > (reading files in /proc/<pid>/ was not a good idea) /usr wants to be > fsck'ed. But it is already mounted at that stage. That's the reason you need an initramfs. > The boot process just continues, but I wonder what one should do to make > the fsck run. Except for using a live cd. With an initramfs. > Maybe I should just enlarge my root partition and move /usr there, at > least this would avoid all the trouble. But I'm used to many separate > partitions, and like it that way. You can have every directory under / on a different partition (even /etc), if you use an initramfs. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
