The basic idea sounds OK to me. Make sure /home and /usr were copied verbatim, symlinks and everything. As in "cp -a".
-- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Wednesday 09 January 2002 07:52 pm, 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? _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
