I On Wednesday 09 January 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: > 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.
I think I used cp -a, I used midnight commander, and it usually seems to do OK, but next time I will use command line to be sure. I could have done something else, like got a circular link or something that messed it up. Just wanted to know it the basic idea was correct. > > 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. That's what I wanted to do, but wasn't sure how. How do you do that? _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
