Hello!
On 12/21/06, Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 21 December 2006 04:20, HG wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to move the home partition from /home to /local/home by
> using YaST and Partitioner. All I get is and error:
> "Failure occured during following action:
> Mounting /dev/sda3 to /local/home
>
> System error code was: -3002"
>
> What does that mean, and how can I move the home partition to the
> /local/home directory?
Uhhh not much information here.
1) Is /home currently its own partition? or is it part of the root
filesystem/partition? Makes quite a difference.
It is on its own partition - /dev/sda3 as you can see from the error
message above.
2) If it is its own partition, why are you using the Partitioner? Unless you
want to create a new and bigger partition and eventually get rid of the
current /home.
Why am I using Partitioner? Hmmm... I'm trying to do something with
the partitions - isn't that what the Partitioner is designed to do? To
be honest YaST has many great things (and other not too hot) and that
is about the only thing that sets SUSE apart from the other distros.
All of them have command line, but there is a new generation of us
linux users. I'm in the between: I'm comfortable at the command
prompt, but I do not know my way around there that much. Partitioner
is simple and easy to find. Why not use it?
3) If (2) is not the case, then all you need to do is to umount /home from its
current mount point and remount it at /local/home which would require either
Yast or Partitioner and should take about 10 seconds.
I tried to remove the mount point in Partitioner. That fails with the
same error message. Anybody know what that means?
4) If (2) is correct, then I myself still wouldn't use Yast to do any of this
but some people would. I would create the new partition. mount it
at /local/home and rsync or cp the files from /home over to it.
I'm trying to move the mount point from /home to /local/home as I want
to import another home by NFS and NIS.
I guess I just don't see what you are trying to do exactly.
Like I said, move the mount point of home partition from /home to
/local/home using the tool that I think is designed for this, the
Partitioner. If you think I should not use the Partitioner (maybe you
know it's broken or something), then can you please tell me another
(working) way to do it.
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HG.
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