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eggplantbren

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[Solved] Quick question about mkinitcpio upgrade

I just ran pacman -Syu and got the following message:

(4/8) upgrading mkinitcpio                         [######################] 100%
==> If your /usr is on a separate partition, you must add the "usr" hook
    to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate your images before rebooting

I'm just wondering, what counts as a separate partition? My partitions contain:

/boot
/
/home
swap

My /usr is presumably on the / partition, which is "separate" from the boot partition where the kernel images are. Do I have to do anything?

Last edited by eggplantbren (2012-05-24 03:00:37)

bohoomil

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Re: [Solved] Quick question about mkinitcpio upgrade

No. Separate means that your keep /usr on yet another different partition outside root / (like you do with /boot and /home). If your root partition is, say, /dev/sda1 and /usr is physically located there, there's nothing to worry about.

Edit: just for the record, a visit to the archives: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 22376.html

Last edited by bohoomil (2012-05-24 02:18:12)

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eggplantbren

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Re: [Solved] Quick question about mkinitcpio upgrade

Thanks! I suppose if it were something that would have broken my (quite standard) system layout, there would be something on the homepage about it. I just wanted to be careful.

t.iglo

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Re: [Solved] Quick question about mkinitcpio upgrade

I just ran pacman -Syu and got the following message:

(4/8) upgrading mkinitcpio                         [######################] 100%
==> If your /usr is on a separate partition, you must add the "usr" hook
    to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate your images before rebooting

I'm just wondering, what counts as a separate partition? My partitions contain:

/boot
/
/home
swap

My /usr is presumably on the / partition, which is "separate" from the boot partition where the kernel images are. Do I have to do anything?

THANK YOU MAAN...
I'm so GLAD that you post this here, it's 2 days ago I updated my Archlinux, and after update and reset I didn't use to login to it.
I know that problem should be near MKINITCPIO but I didn't know where.
But today I read your post and after it I boot to archlinux by liveISO and update mkinitcpio again with MISSED parameter "usr".

Well done boy...

Thank you so much

Have a nice day.