I bind mounted / then copied /dev to the new partition. This was advice
given earlier, the first time it happened to me: I finally found an earlier
replay to a similar request from me. All is now well.
Thank you for the advice.
Alan
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab
to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often.
A good idea. If for some reason you don't have disk image
backups...grab something like system rescue cd, and partimage the
whole drive and the restore from it...
On Monday 23 November 2009 20:35:34 Alan E. Davis wrote:
Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to
a new partition?
Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab
to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often.
--
Rgds
Peter
Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a
new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot
find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system had my / partition,
/dev/sdc1. One day recently, that partition became inaccessable. After
Alan E. Davis writes:
I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5
mounted as /newroot, using
# cp -ax / /newroot
I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall
there are some other steps necessary.
/dev needs at least the entries console
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem
to a new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but
cannot find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system had my
/ partition, /dev/sdc1. One day recently, that partition
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a
new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot
find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system
Francisco Ares wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the /
filesystem to a new partition? I recall someone helping me
with
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