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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: LVM: combining two logical volumes, how?
From:       "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss () iguanasuicide ! net>
Date:       2011-05-27 7:45:48
Message-ID: 201105270245.53728.bss () iguanasuicide ! net
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In <20110526220513.GA7052@slimer>, William Hopkins wrote:
>If this is a live filesystem, your best bet is to boot up with a liveCD or
>boot disk, basically any other OS so writes won't be happening to /usr when
>you go to move it into the newly-extended root LV.

On Debian, writing to /usr is a policy violation, unless the administrator has 
specifically configured the package to write somewhere under /usr.  This is is 
compliance with the FHS.

In any case, my instructions (specifically: remount,ro) would prevent writes 
from occurring as well.
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