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I need to look into that. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So the latest package should mount /var in the initrd in much the same +</I>><i> way it does with /usr (not exactly the same but I want to make the +</I>><i> changes as unobtrusive as possible and ideally separate from the main +</I>><i> dracut package for convenience of updating). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I presume your setup is such that /var is indeed on a separate partition? +</I>Yeah, I don’t see the point of having a separate usr so that one went +smoothly. However, having a separate /var is useful even on a desktop +for me, because of /var/cache/urpmi (I had aptitude fill my / on a +safe-upgrade that ended up not being that safe once so I kinda became +paranoid :p) +><i> +</I>><i> In order to fix this, simply mv the folders out the way and just do the +</I>><i> symlinks manually - it'll mess up the current boot, but a reboot should +</I>><i> fix it. +</I>><i> +</I>That’s what I did indeed, then I could upgrade filesystem, thanks for +the answer ;) +><i> If the symlinks disappear and are replaced again by folders, then also +</I>><i> make sure you disable mandriva-clean-var-run-lock.service as it +</I>><i> helpfully nukes the symlinks (the update does this but perhaps it's +</I>><i> somehow been run/re-enabled?) +</I>Can’t answer for that, most of the time I never shutdown my laptop, only +pm-suspend. + +I should also mention that each try at installing filesystem resulted in +a temporary symlink being created like: lock;50b68005. I assume these +symlinks can safely be removed, just thought I would point that out. + +Thanks for your help ! + +Regards, + +><i> +</I>><i> Cheers +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Col +</I>><i> +</I>-- +Rémy CLOUARD +() ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail +/\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="020696.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="020751.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#20749">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#20749">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#20749">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#20749">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |