On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:41 +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: > Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:28, Raven a écrit : > [...] > > After I rsync, how do I tell the system to use the new /usr folder > > (since I am not doing the whole "remount" thing)? > > As you seem to be unable to have a physical access to the server, I > suppose you can not go to single user mode. If you try "init S" or "init > 1", you will probably loose you network connection. > > I would certainly try this : > 1 - mount the "/" (root) partition a second time on a mount point (ie on > /mnt) as Linux can do this. On this second mount point, you will not have > the sub-filesystem "sdc1" mounted on /mnt/usr. So you will be able to > alter /usr on the root FS. > 2 - rsync the bad /usr (sdc1) on /mnt/usr (it will theorically copy the > contents of /usr (sdc1) on /usr (root), behind the one mounted from sdc1 > 3 - if sdc hangs, reboot and resume from (1), it will resume the copy > 4 - remove the "/usr" line in the fstab ; > 5 - reboot (the sdc1 fs will not be mounted over /usr) > > But this solution SHOULD work IN THEORY !!! I never tried it. someone > might have a better idea.
It worked! Thank you all for your help and especially Francois for providing a very fast solution :D -Raven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
