Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition
Date	2020-07-07 18:10 +0200
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On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > * David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]:
> >> On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >>> It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. BUSYBOX=y is
> >>> essential.
> >>
> >> This is what the install gave me.  I have not touched it.
> >> Where do I tell it to mount /usr?
> > 
> > No need to. initramfs-tools does it by default. Check dmesg or
> > journal.
> 
> Still today, it fails to mount /usr if /usr is a logical volume using lvm2
> 
> I worked around that problem with an extra "activate" line in the following file:
> 
>    /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2
> 
>        activate "/dev/mapper/vg0-usr"
> 
> I placed that after the line to activate ROOT....
> 
> So, still broken after all this time :(

Is this link worth a read?

https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/

BTW the first line of the thread is "completely without starting any flamewars:"

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2020-07-07 17:00 +0200
  Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-07 18:10 +0200
    Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-07 18:30 +0200
      Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2020-07-07 19:00 +0200
        Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-08 02:00 +0200
        Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 08:00 +0200
          Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2020-07-08 10:30 +0200
            Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-08 15:30 +0200
            Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-08 16:40 +0200
          Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-08 10:40 +0200
            Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 10:20 +0200
              Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-09 11:20 +0200
                Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-09 16:40 +0200
                Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 18:20 +0200

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