On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 8:40 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: > 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.
/etc/fstab: /dev/hde7 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde5 /Data vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,uid=501,gid=100,umask=7 0 0 /dev/hde6 /Graphics vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,uid=501,gid=100,umask=7 0 0 /dev/hde8 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hde10 /holding ext3 user,defaults 1 2 /dev/hde9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda /mnt/LS120 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,dev,sync,codepage=850,suid,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdf1 /mnt/Mdk9_0 ext3 user,defaults 1 2 /dev/hdf6 /mnt/OldData vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdf7 /mnt/OldHome ext3 user,defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde11 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdf5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 Does that help? Anne
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