On 03/21/2012 03:02 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
1) make backups and... 1.a) verify backups... consider this my disclaimer...
2) mkdir /mnt/root-bind/ /mnt/usr-bind/
3) mount --bind / /mnt/root-bind/
4) mount --bind /usr/ /mnt/usr-bind/
5) rsync --archive --hard-links --sparse --progress
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:02:31 -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote:
1) make backups and... 1.a) verify backups... consider this my
disclaimer... 2) mkdir /mnt/root-bind/ /mnt/usr-bind/
3) mount --bind / /mnt/root-bind/
4) mount --bind /usr/ /mnt/usr-bind/
4a) mount /usr -o remount,ro
Makes sure
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:28:20 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
A manual initramfs is not that easy, no. And it becomes outdated more
easily than an initramfs-creator-based approach.
If you keep a separate directory for your initramfs files, this is true.
But if your initramfs config is a list
On 03/20/2012 09:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
If you keep a separate directory for your initramfs files, this is true.
But if your initramfs config is a list of files to include, the current
versions of everything will always be included.
Fair point.
Best,
Sebastian
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 03/18/2012 06:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
snip
On that note - is it possible, and if so, does anyone have any decent
detailed How-to's on how I might be able to convert a separate /user to
one on directly on / on a
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:57:39 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
How do I find out if I am actually *using* an initramfs right now
(I know it
is built into the kernel), and
ls -l /boot/ will tell you.
No it won't, as the initramfs can be built into the kernel image.
There is a
On 03/18/2012 06:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
While genkernel also can generate kernel configs for you, both dracut
and genkernel are initramfs creators: they take repeated creation (after
Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of
the follow-ups...
I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe
I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me
forever as a gentoo user (I'm sure none of you are crying over
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:44:07PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of
the follow-ups...
I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe
I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me
On 18-Mar-12 18:44, Tanstaafl wrote:
How do I find out if I am actually *using* an initramfs right now (I
know it is built into the kernel),
Just guessing: If you do not know, then you are probably not using it...
Jarry
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Tanstaafl writes:
On 2012-03-17 12:11 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
An initramfs which does this is created by
=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or
=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be
sure any initramfs you create
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
[snip]
Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
I have a remote system that has /usr on a separate partition.
So...
How do I find out if I am
Tanstaafl wrote:
Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of
the follow-ups...
I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe
I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me
forever as a gentoo user (I'm sure none of you
On March 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org
wrote:
[snip]
Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
I have a remote
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