On 3/10/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/10/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mark Knecht:
> > > Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no
> > > longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are
> > > lots of messages on the sc
On 3/10/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Knecht:
> > Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no
> > longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are
> > lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files.
> > (/usr/bin, /usr/sb
Mark Knecht:
> Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no
> longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are
> lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files.
> (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...)
That happened to me too ;-)
But the reas
On Mar 10, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Eric Bliss wrote:
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote:
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote:
Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to
/etc/fstab?
Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote:
> On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote:
> > Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to
> > /etc/fstab?
> >
> > Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount.
>
> Don't touch mtab. mtab i
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote:
> Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to
> /etc/fstab?
>
> Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount.
Don't touch mtab. mtab is auto-magically generated by mount.
Josh
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On Friday 10 March 2006 09:43, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer
> boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of
> messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin,
> /usr/sbin sort of things...)
>
>
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer
> boots to any level that a user could use.
Now that you've broke it, I'd like to suggest to learn
and refrain from using old fashioned partitioning. Instead,
I'd strongly suggest to use LVM instead. With
On 3/10/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Knecht:
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164
> >
> > I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some
> > problem with doing it this way.
>
> There are several hints in that topic.
> I did move my /usr to a
On Friday 10 March 2006 15:53, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving
> /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do
> this safely?
go to the suse support database.
Look up your question.
They recommend tar (I did it
Mark Knecht:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164
>
> I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some
> problem with doing it this way.
There are several hints in that topic.
I did move my /usr to a new partition, so I'ld say:
1. create and format your new partition
i think this should be easy,
make the new partition copy the contenet of /usr to it
change your fstab to include the new modifications
i'm not sure how to delete the old one after it's mounted maybe mount
-o bind? or just boot a live cd and delete the content of your old
/usr from there when you re
Hi,
I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving
/usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do
this safely?
Thanks,
Mark
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