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What about all of the plain files in / ???
Jim.
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > What do I need to consider when copying "/" to another partition? Reason
> > > I ask is I would like to put it in partition which had dos. Here is what
> > > I would like to do:
> > >
> > > Old setup:
> > >
> > > hda1 -- dos
> > > hdb1 -- swap
> > > hdb2 -- /
> > > hdb3 -- /home
> > >
> > > New setup:
> > >
> > > hda1 -- / {/etc, /boot, /bin, /lib, /sbin, /proc, /var, /tmp, /cdrom,
> > > /mnt,
> > > /floppy}
> > > hdb1 -- swap
> > > hdb2 -- /usr
> > > hdb3 -- /home
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > David
> > >
> >
> > Well, this is how I would do it, supposing you don't have anything on that
> > FAT
> > partition you want to keep.
> >
> > umount /dev/hda1
> > mke2fs /dev/hda1
> > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> > cp -a /etc /boot /bin /lib /sbin /var /tmp /cdrom /floppy /mnt
> > mkdir /mnt/proc
> > Edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf so it's using hda1 instead of hdb2 and run lilo.
> > Edit /mnt/etc/fstab to reflect the changes.
> > Reboot. Now the system ought to boot having the hda1 partition as / and the
> > previous / on /usr.
> > cd /usr
> > rm -fr etc boot bin lib sbin proc var tmp cdrom mnt
> > mv usr/* usr/.??* .
> > rm -fr usr
> >
> >
> > Anybody seeing something I've missed? Please say so!
> >
> >
> >
> > Hack,
> >
> > MartinS
> >
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> What about /dev ?
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