On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:52:15PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: > My dead rat 6.2 partition was filling up, and I got a new 40 gig drive, so I > decided to put part of the distro on a partition on the 40 gig, but got into > trouble. > > First, I mounted the new partition: > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/40g > > then I copied /home and /usr to /mnt/40g. The goal is to move them, but for > now I just renamed: > mv /home /home1 > mov /usr /usr1 > > then I created links in / > ln -s /mnt/40g/home home > ln -s /mnt/40g/usr usr > > I fixed up fstab to mount the new partition. It seemed like everything > should work OK, but when I tried startx, it couldn't find things, fonts and > such. Is the basic theory OK, or am I making a conceptual problem?
Since you did not include exact error messages, we can only provide approximate answers. It sounds to me like you did not use 'cp -a' when copying, so permissions were not set properly on the copies. Why did you not mount /dev/hdc1 under /usr to avoid one of the symlinks? That's the way I would do it. It ought to work either way though. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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