Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.user > #237518

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

Show all headers | View raw

	Hi.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 07:16:30PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Will the merge-usr cause myself problem ?
> 
> You would end up with an empty partition, and possibly an overflowed
> root partition, if you made the root partition too small to hold all
> of the content from /usr.

It other way around actually.

While called usrmerge, the package actually moves /bin, /sbin and /lib*
to /usr.
So it's the overflow of /usr the OP should worry about, not /.

Moreover, the separate /usr is considered by the upstream an important
feature - [1], as it allows the local administrator to have read-write /
and read-only /usr, and possibly - shared /usr along the several hosts
(involves NFS or equivalent, and dracut).
Thus this feature is unlikely to go away in the nearest future, at
least.


The only problem with usrmerge I've encountered so far is broken "dpkg
-S". For instance, "dpkg -S /usr/bin/bash" fails, because "bash" package
provides "bash" as "/bin/bash". And of course, "which bash" shows me
"/usr/bin/bash".

[1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2146081

Reco

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-18 22:40 +0200
  Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-07-18 23:10 +0200
    Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-19 03:20 +0200
  Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> - 2021-07-18 23:50 +0200
    Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-19 01:20 +0200
      Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-19 01:50 +0200
      Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-19 08:20 +0200
    Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical  Committee) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-19 12:40 +0200

csiph-web