I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with no keyboard. Anyway it was unusable.) I thought it might be an initrd problem, and had a half-baked memory that chrooting into the root partition and running makeinitrd or somesuch would solve it. But as usual I got errors from nonexistant /dev and /proc filesystems in the chroot and so could not build a new initrd. So I copied /dev back where it came from and reverted fstab and all was well.
I might have been more persistent but had a slow (and expensive) i'net connection so it was easier to give up. What should I have done? TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
