Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jan 31 22:23:53 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 14:10 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Hello Testers and rawhide Users,
> 
> Fedora 17 will locate the entire base operating system in /usr. The directories
> /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64 will only be symlinks:
>  /bin → /usr/bin
>  /sbin → /usr/sbin
>  /lib → /usr/lib
>  /lib64 → /usr/lib64

I've just tested building a live image from the /usr move repository. It
boots, and the /usr move changes appear to be implemented. I'm currently
testing if it can be installed successfully.

One thing I already noticed is that there seems to be a problem with the
ntfs-3g executables. /bin/ntfs-3g seems to be a symlink to itself - it
shows as "/bin/ntfs-3g -> /bin/ntfs-3g" in ls output. Trying to do 'ls
-l /usr/bin/ntfs-3g' results in 'cannot access /usr/bin/ntfs-3g: Too
many levels of symbolic links'. /bin/ntfsmount is similarly affected.

On a pre-/usr move system it seems that these executables are actually
located in /bin but have symlinks in /usr/bin - /usr/bin/ntfs-3g is a
symlink to /bin/ntfs-3g . Perhaps the existence of these symlinks
in /usr/bin confused things?
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