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
quickly installing Ubuntu on a different drive, that root partition
eventually showed up again.
So I've been able to boot Gentoo again off the separate /boot partition on
/dev/sda1. I need to move that / partition. I have several other
partitions mounted off this one, mainly as /usr and maybe /usr/local/, and
some storage partitions mounted to my home directory.
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. I changed /etc/fstab, and the grub2
grub.cfg from ubuntu, the entry for this kernel. The boot stalls at a
certain point.
May I ask what steps are necessary to do this?
Thank you,
Alan Davis
