On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:53:47AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Now that you mention it, it may have been when the separate /usr init > thingy was going on that I had to add it. That could be it. Well, if I > have to upgrade before they have a fix, I'll give it a shot and see what > happens. I suspect it will be fixed at some point and most likely in > the next update anyway. > > Dale
You need to get over that "it will be fixed at some point", and believe it when every one tells you that separate /usr without an initrd is working fine with present stable udev. Here's proof on a wee fileserver, which has neavuh had an initrd and always had a separate /usr: mingdao@server ~ $ eix sys-fs/udev [I] sys-fs/udev Available versions: 197-r8^t 200^t 204^t **9999^t {{acl doc +firmware-loader gudev hwdb introspection keymap +kmod +openrc selinux static-libs}} Installed versions: 204^t(02:40:22 PM 06/26/2013)(acl firmware-loader kmod openrc -doc -gudev -hwdb -introspection -keymap -selinux -static-libs) Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd Description: Linux dynamic and persistent device naming support (aka userspace devfs) [I] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts Available versions: 23^t 25^t 26^t **9999^t Installed versions: 26^t(02:40:36 PM 06/26/2013) Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org Description: udev startup scripts for openrc Found 2 matches. mingdao@server ~ $ df -hT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 2.0G 109M 1.9G 6% / /dev/root xfs 2.0G 109M 1.9G 6% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 3.0G 4.0K 3.0G 1% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 3.0G 592K 3.0G 1% /run shm tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/system-var xfs 10G 717M 9.3G 8% /var /dev/mapper/system-usr xfs 10G 4.4G 5.7G 44% /usr /dev/mapper/system-home xfs 6.0G 5.8G 251M 96% /home /dev/mapper/storage-photos xfs 500G 19G 482G 4% /photos /dev/mapper/storage-backups xfs 500G 262G 239G 53% /backups /dev/mapper/storage-offload fuseblk 300G 234G 67G 78% /offload /dev/mapper/storage-peter xfs 25G 1.7G 24G 7% /peter /dev/mapper/storage-jeremiah xfs 10G 3.6G 6.5G 36% /jeremiah mingdao@server ~ $ ls -l /boot/ total 25156 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 10 13:26 System.map -> System.map-3.4.24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2205716 Jan 10 13:25 System.map-3.4.24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1812882 Sep 6 2012 System.map-3.4.9-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1823240 Aug 9 2012 System.map-3.5.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1823619 Aug 16 2012 System.map-3.5.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 28 2012 System.map.old -> System.map-3.4.9-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 21 2012 boot.0800 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 21 2012 boot.0810 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 21 2012 boot.0820 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 21 2012 boot.0830 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 10 13:26 config -> config-3.4.24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62528 Jan 10 13:25 config-3.4.24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63522 Sep 6 2012 config-3.4.9-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64644 Aug 9 2012 config-3.5.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64644 Aug 16 2012 config-3.5.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec 28 2012 config.old -> config-3.4.9-gentoo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 10 13:25 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-3.4.24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4671120 Jan 10 13:24 vmlinuz-3.4.24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4349568 Sep 6 2012 vmlinuz-3.4.9-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4388464 Aug 9 2012 vmlinuz-3.5.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4390672 Aug 16 2012 vmlinuz-3.5.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 28 2012 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-3.4.9-gentoo mingdao@server ~ $ cat /etc/lilo.conf # Faster, but won't work on all systems: compact # Should work for most systems, and do not have the sector limit: lba32 default = Gentoo # MBR to install LILO to: boot = /dev/md0 raid-extra-boot = mbr-only map = /boot/.map install = /boot/boot-menu.b # Note that for lilo-22.5.5 or later you # do not need boot-{text,menu,bmp}.b in # /boot, as they are linked into the lilo # binary. menu-scheme=Wb prompt # If you always want to see the prompt with a 15 second timeout: timeout=50 append="panic=10 nomce dolvm domdadm rootfstype=xfs" # # End LILO global section # # # Linux bootable partition config begins # image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/md0 label = Gentoo read-only # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking image = /boot/vmlinuz.old root = /dev/md0 label = Gentoo-def read-only # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking # # Linux bootable partition config ends # mingdao@server ~ $ Get over it and go back to udev :-) Bruce -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting