On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > Meanwhile, could someone give me some ideas on the problems I had with > loss of root password (which is ok now, so it must have been lost > access to it, not corruption), what I need to do in the way of access > rights to /holding which will be the new /usr, and why I was > constantly getting messages denying access to /bin (related, I > suppose, to the root login problem?).
I'm beginning to wonder about that /holding partition ... could you show us your current /etc/fstab? Presumably this is now the same as it was before you first attempted moving /usr. I don't recall the filesytem and fstab entry being used on /holding having been discussed previously, and suspect that merely copying the /usr files there and changing only the mountpoint name in the /etc/fstab entry will not be sufficient. Since you still have the original /usr files in their original place, I'd consider unmounting /holding, using fsck to create a new filesystem on it with whatever Linux native filesystem you prefer (I'm a reiser fan), and making a new fstab entry in place of the old one, as follows: /dev/hdXY /holding reiserfs defaults 1 2 Then mount /holding, and try the copy again (as root, of course): cp -a /usr/* /holding/ Perhaps this will give better results. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley
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