On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Liz Dunbar wrote about, confused again - which disk?:
> The current state of affairs (and everything works!) is:
> /dev/hda3 84% /
> /dev/hda1 80% /dos
> /dev/hdb2 1% /mnt
>
> The current state of confusion/short-term memory loss is:
> /dev/hdb2 1% /mnt is fine; this is the new 20GB disk to which we
> copied /home/user/webmaster with all its subdirectories and the website
> still works - with its new name as well as the old. (Thank you all!)
>
> /dev/hda3 84% / is the point of confusion.
> This is still so full because we did not delete the /home/user/webmaster
> and subdirectories after we copied them to /dev/hdb2 because we were
> nervous. Now we're less nervous and want to remove from hda3 all the stuff
> that we now have working on hdb2 (and have it continue working on hdb2.)
> First confusion: Exactly how do we do that? And how do we be sure we're
> deleting the old one from hda3 and not the new one on hdb2?
You say /dev/hda3 is mounted as "/" so /dev/hdb2 is mounted as /home on
/dev/hda3, to deltete the old stuff one would need to know what the "old"
/home directory is now called.
I am not going to say rm this or that because its really impossable to say
as i dont know what the old home directorys name is;
It would have been beter if you had told us what it is called, possably
a name like, /homeold or /oldhome.
A safe way would be to unmount /dev/hdb2 containing the "new" directory
structure and then deltet the old /home dir(s). That way you can be sure
you are not deleteing the new. Before doing anything put the system in
/admin mode,
init 1
> Second confusion: all the email accounts are still on hda3, which is okay,
> they work; except that (here comes the confusion) several teachers have
> websites in public_html directories under those email accounts, e.g.
> http://BaltimoreCityCollege/~edunbar/ , as far as I can tell is still on
> hda3 but it comes up in the web browser just like the parts that are on hdb2.
Thoses accounts are surely in /home/user right, and /home is located on
/dev/hdb2 so the new accounts are really on the "new" system, it is because
/home is mounted on /dev/hda3 that it seems like they are on the old system.
>
> How do I find out where these things are? Is it okay to continue having
> pieces of the website on two different disks? Should I move all the email
> accounts to hdb2? (How, without messing them up?) Should I just clear space
> on hda3 by removing the old version of the website that's now on hdb2 and
> leave the rest along to grow into that space?
Certanly unmount /home before deleting anything.
If you are still unsure send us a copy of /etc/fstab we should htne be able
to see what is mounted and where its mounted.
After the deleting is done type;
init 3
Or which ever runlevel you use.
>
> Thanks for your patience; Spring will come.
>
>
> Liz Dunbar
> Webmaster, System Administrator pro tem pro bono
> Baltimore City College ... Baltimore MD USA ...
> http://BaltimoreCityCollege.org
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> And this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a </html>
>
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