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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian



Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette:
>> Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with
>> the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available
>> post-initramfs.  The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the
>> systemd case as initscripts needs updates for sysvinit as was said
>> elsewhere).  So no repartitioning should be required on upgrades.
> As explained elsewhere in this thread, using initramfs is still not
> mandatory in debian

an initramfs is not mandatory as long as you don't have /usr on a
separate partition.
No initramfs + split /usr is not supported and has been broken for a while.


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