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	2020-07-09 16:40 +0200
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On Thu 09 Jul 2020 at 11:02:49 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 10:56:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Sounds pretty risky.
> > 
> > Sure. On the other hand, what is the point of using LVM if one is not 
> > going to use it to adjust partitions when required?
> 
> You first have to copy stuff, then delete stuff, then shrink, then move
> around. So at some point, you need double the space /usr is taking.
> 
> LVM won't change that.
> 
> Not a process I'd be comfortable rolling out for a distro to run
> automatically on wildly different user's machines out there. No way.

Agreed. And implementing such a change as an upgrade, running on the
system that's being "adjusted", seems misguided.

A separate / and /usr only becomes an encumbrance when you boot the
system: there's no problem while the system is up and running.
So there's no reason to change it on a live system: wait until it's
down for some reason.

And read the Release Notes before a dist-upgrade!

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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