On Friday 01 Aug 2003 6:16 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Right, Bill. I'm going to give this a try. Is there any way I > > will know if it really is better before I hose up my system > > again<g> ? > > Sure, you mount it over the old one (as per Jack's instructions), > and try an app or three - you don't even need to run the "telinit > 5" testing step until you're satisfied that the basic CLI apps > work; I'd suggest something like "cdrecord -scanbus" or "iptraf" or > "traceroute", pretty much anything that lives somewhere in /usr ... > if that works, then proceed to the full "telinit 5" test. If > anything fails, unmount it. > > If you find any odd size discrepancies like you were seeing before, > then before you mount it as /usr (IOW, while it's still mounted as > /holding), check the md5sums of both the originals and the copies > of a few such files, and compare them. If they match, then the > files are identical, no matter what ls is telling you. We can > tackle that later; just don't delete those original /usr files > until everything is completely kosher. :)
OK - I umounted /holding and mounted the new /usr. I ran a cat command, then a cp one. I then used vi to change fstab, and ran telinit 5. I did not hear the kde splash tune, but apart from that everything seems fine. The directory /holding still shows in konqueror, but I presume it is the mount point created earlier, not a directory as such? Anyway, it shows as empty. fstab is, as expected, pointing hde10 to /usr. What other checks should I run, before taking the plunge and deleting the old /usr contents? Anne
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