Quoting Larry Elmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got potato installed on a 1.5GB partition, and have another hard drive > with an available 2GB partition (type 82 Linux, formatted ext2fs) on to > which I want to move /usr. I copied the contents of /usr on to the new > partition, then edited /etc/fstab, moved the original /usr to /usr-old and > created a new /usr. When I rebooted, most everything seemed to work, but I > noticed a handful of error messages scrolling by. The only one I had time to > read was that /usr/bin/aumix couldn't be found (because it's called when the > sound module is loaded into the kernel (to turn the volume on my SB16 down > to 50%), but /usr hadn't been mounted yet.
Hm, I'm not sure why it would have worked before. My modules load before /usr is mounted as you can see in this snippet: opl3sa ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Checking all file systems... Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul-98) /dev/sda3: clean, 50931/153600 files, 512638/613966 blocks /dev/sda4: clean, 11560/395264 files, 1385686/1577457 blocks Mounting local file systems... /dev/sda3 on /usr type ext2 (rw) > I couldn't find it or any of the > other failures to load something from /usr in any of the log files in > /var/log, so I'm not sure what's missing. _Most_ things seem to work > properly, but a few things fail miserably (for example, 'man' tells me it > can't setuid properly and aborts). I commented out the line in /etc/fstab > and moved contents of /usr-old back to /usr and everything works properly > now. > > My question is: what else do I need to do to move /usr onto a new partition > and have Linux boot properly? I re-read the HOWTOs and can't find any > mention of anything other than what I tried. Help! At risk of starting a religious discussion, I've been very happy with cd /usr ls -lR > /path-to/old-listing mount /dev/XXX /mnt find -xdev | cpio -damp /mnt (-vdamp if you want to watch) cd /mnt ls -lR > /path-to/new-listing You don't have to do the listings, but I did, and ran them through a python filter to blank out the modification dates on directories. I then ran diff -u on the resulting output and the only differences were the bigger directories on the source as they had once contained more entries. Finally I checked that the hard linked /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/bin/X11/ had the same inode number. If you do all this with /, you also have to prune any mounted filesystems from old-listing as I don't know how to make -xdev apply to ls. However, it coped with all the stuff in /dev such as pipes and sockets, and also links broken or otherwise. Take care with /etc/fstab. There was a recent example on this list where someone had overlooked the fact that its lines are obeyed in sequence. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
