Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

[Noah Cutler]

Hey all.

I'm confused over the whole separate /usr partition is broken thing:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
> From an email in current fedora-user thread we have:

"That should not be necessary.  And would break a very normal system
setup of using separate drives, *even more so than the blasted can't have
a separate /usr thing that happened recently*."

During Fedora 18 fresh install with custom partitioning chosen, Anaconda
autocompletes mount points so I went with /boot, /, /user, /var, and /home
partitions.

Everything appears to work swimmingly here after 1 month of use -- separate
/usr partition does not appear to be broken...anymore??

Just trying to future proof my setup; if it's better to merge /usr into
rootfs, so be it, better to do it early days with the new system.

Otherwise, if someone can chime in here with some sage partitioning advice
as to how to proceed moving forward with Fedora, that would be much
appreciated.

FWIW, as a beginner the benefits I see in a diverse micro-managed
partitioning scheme (vs. the mega partition) is being able to fsck quickly;
clone partitions quickly (e.g. copy to additional disks), and prevent
runaway logs and the like (there are likely others).

I'm thinking something like this would be "ideal" for a 256GB SSD:

/dev/sda1 /boot 181MB of 500MB
/dev/sda2 / 606MB of 3GB

extended:
/dev/sda4 /usr 6.0GB of 12GB
/dev/sda5 /var 1.5GB of 8GB
/dev/sda6 /home 15GB of 30GB
free space the rest

Of course most seem to go with /boot / and /home, so my ideas are likely
not grounded in reality ;-)

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:01 PM, wrote:
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> Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives? (Tim)
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> Re: Fedora 18 network printer setup (Tim Waugh)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gary Stainburn 
> To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:47:40 +0000
> Subject: Using Exim as a controlled relayer
> I've managed to get the Exim + Pgsql setup working.
>
> For the domains I'm hosting I have a set of records which contain an email
> address within the domain and an delivery email address, e.g.
>
> [e-mail] ->           [e-mail]
>
> When I test this using
>
> exim -bt [e-mail]
>
> it works fine, but when I try to send an email it fails
>
> relay not permitted.
>
> Obviously i do not want to turn on relaying, so how can I configure Exim to
> allow emails that have matched a record in the user table to be forwarded?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Reindl Harald 
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:50:19 +0100
> Subject: Re: Booting issues
>
> Am 26.03.2013 22:28, schrieb Kinkaid:
> > As I dug around the boot up process a little, I found a curious message
>
> about /mnt/usbdisk which was a usb drive I
> > had setup shortly before all the latest bit happened.  I guess the init
>
> process was hanging when it was trying to
> > mount the usb drive and that was halting the whole process.  After I
>
> removed the offending entry from /etc/fstab
> > all boots up normally now
>
> "noauto" is your friend and the last bit to zero which indicates at least
> "no fsck"
> never configure temporary drives as like built-in ones
>
> [root@localhost:~]$ cat /etc/fstab  | grep noauto
> UUID=ea140964-634c-4fce-b587-9ce6a21b4cf9  /mnt/fileserver-backup  ext4
> rw,noexec,noatime,noauto  0 0
>
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> From: Frank Murphy 
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> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:55:20 +0000
> Subject: Re: yum erase unused dependencies
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:40:46 +0100
> Michael Schwendt  wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted
> > > packages, and tell it to remove only dependencies which were used
> > > by no other package. I can't seem to find how that was done in my
> > > notes, could someone give me a pointer to the method?
> >
> > yum list yum*
> > yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
>
> you could add the following to /etc/yum.conf
> "clean_requirements_on_remove=1"
>
> --
> Regards,
> Frank
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> From: Patrick O'Callaghan 
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> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:20:02 -0430
> Subject: Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
> On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 13:55 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 03/26/2013 01:32 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> > > You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a
> > > different filesystem.  If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable
> > > under other OSes though.
> >
> > If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that the
> > various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without going to
> > the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim the right
> > to demand encryption keys.  It's not your fault that they're using a
> > dain-bramaged OS that can't read OSS file systems, such as ext4, is it?
>
> You mean like the one in my set-top box?
>
> poc
>
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> From: Patrick O'Callaghan 
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> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:22:49 -0430
> Subject: Re: yum erase unused dependencies
> On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 20:40 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > I recall last year a discussion of using yum to remove unwanted
>
> packages, and
> > > tell it to remove only dependencies which were used by no other
>
> package. I can't
> > > seem to find how that was done in my notes, could someone give me a
>
> pointer to
> > > the method?
> >
> > yum list yum*
> > yum info yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves
> >
> > --
> > Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux
>
> 3.9.0-0.rc3.git1.4.fc19.x86_64
> > loadavg: 0.15 0.08 0.06
>
> package-cleanup can also be useful in this context.
>
> poc
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" 
> To: Fedora user-lists 
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:41:32 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Fedora 18 network printer setup
> I have a Brother DCP-7065dn printer scanner connected to my LAN.
>
> Sadly, it requires a proprietary driver.  I've installed that.
> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html
>
> I asked the System Settings: Printers to set it up (add the printer).
> The SS:P found the printer (so it must have found its IP address) and
> added it.  But the SS:P was only willing to configure it with the IP
> Address "localhost".  Not surprisingly, printing didn't work.
>
> I even tried telling SS:P the printer's IP address, but it ignored
> that and used localhost.
>
> I used SS:P to remove the printer again.
>
> I used the CUPS web server to add the printer (as suggested on the
> Brother page).  That worked.  My printer has a static IP address,
> which made pointing Firefox at it easier.
>
> Why would Systems Settings: Printers not be able to add this network
> printer?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim 
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:20:22 +1030
> Subject: Re: Booting issues
>
> Kinkaid, Kyle:
> > > I'm having some boot problems on my Fedora 18 workstation, KDE Spin.
> > >
> > > System background:
> > >
> > > I have a Dell Precision workstation, with two HDs, and full disk
> > > encryption.  The two HDs are combined into three logical volumes,
> > > swap, root, and /home.
>
> Richard Vickery:
> > I think I had a like problem to this that I solved by putting the
> > partitions on the same drive, rather than using separate ones.
>
> That should not be necessary.  And would break a very normal system
> setup of using separate drives, even more so than the blasted can't have
> a separate /usr thing that happened recently.
>
> I've used separate home drives, in the past, as a very simple way of
> being able to safely update a server without any chance of screwing up
> user data.  Others have used separate swap drives as a way of speeding
> up swap, should you ever be stuck with having to make use of it.  It's
> bad enough to have to use a drive for swap space, without having to put
> up with the thrashing of alternating between swapping and everything
> else it's trying to access on the drive.
>
> Anyway, I note the original poster says they've solved their problem.
>
> --
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> public lists.
>
> My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't
> use Windows.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim 
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:23:27 +1030
> Subject: Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
> Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
> > If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that
> > the various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without
> > going to the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim
> > the right to demand encryption keys.  It's not your fault that they're
> > using a dain-bramaged OS that can't read OSS file systems, such as
> > ext4, is it?
>
> It strikes me that the "snoopy" services will probably have no trouble
> reading something as un-bizarre as ext4.  I dare say that such things
> are child's play to them.  It would be a tech that would assess
> hardware, not just any member of their staff.
>
> --
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> public lists.
>
> My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't
> use Windows.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim 
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:28:29 +1030
> Subject: Re: undo rm -rf *
> Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, bruce sent:
> > as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do
> > when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the
> > results would be...
>
> I would, also, think carefully about whether you really do need the
> force flag.  Some people just jam that in out of habit.
>
> --
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> public lists.
>
> My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't
> use Windows.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim 
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:31:13 +1030
> Subject: Re: Using Exim as a controlled relayer
> Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, Gary Stainburn sent:
> > When I test this using
> >
> > exim -bt [e-mail]
> >
> > it works fine, but when I try to send an email it fails
> >
> > relay not permitted.
> >
> > Obviously i do not want to turn on relaying, so how can I configure
> > Exim to allow emails that have matched a record in the user table to
> > be forwarded?
>
> Bearing in mind your bowlderised example, my simplistic answer would be
> to use real domain names (that you own) in your network.  Things work a
> lot easier when you don't use fake domain names.  Being able to email
> between machines, for just one example.
>
> --
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> public lists.
>
> My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't
> use Windows.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rejy M Cyriac 
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:25:31 +0530
> Subject: Re: undo rm -rf *
> On 03/27/2013 11:28 AM, Tim wrote:
> > Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, bruce sent:
> > > as a face saving process... always test what ever you're going to do
> > > when using RM <<< and then substitute ls for rm to see what the
> > > results would be...
> >
> > I would, also, think carefully about whether you really do need the
> > force flag.  Some people just jam that in out of habit.
>
> Reminded me of another dangerous habit some people get into - exiting
> 'vi/vim' with ':wq!' always.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim Waugh 
> To: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" , Community support for Fedora
> users 
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:44:29 +0000
> Subject: Re: Fedora 18 network printer setup
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 01:41 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > I have a Brother DCP-7065dn printer scanner connected to my LAN.
> >
> > Sadly, it requires a proprietary driver.  I've installed that.
> > <
>
> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html%3E
> > I asked the System Settings: Printers to set it up (add the printer).
> > The SS:P found the printer (so it must have found its IP address) and
> > added it.  But the SS:P was only willing to configure it with the IP
> > Address "localhost".  Not surprisingly, printing didn't work.
> >
> > I even tried telling SS:P the printer's IP address, but it ignored
> > that and used localhost.
>
> That's odd.  What output does this command give?:
>
> su -c 'lpinfo -l -v'
>
> (I'm hoping it lists the network printer there...)
>
> Tim.
> */
>
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