Am 12.04.2012 21:49, schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to > move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a > spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while > booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has always worked and is > pretty fast. I do have a question tho. > > When I copy this over, do I still need to copy over null, console and > such to /dev? I know I don't need everything in /dev but do recall > needing those in the past. Has this changed since I'm using the init > thingy? Am I forgetting one? I thought there was three. >
So, you are not just moving /usr /var and /home but also the rest of root? In that case it is best to do something like mount --bind / /mnt/real_root cp -a /mnt/real_root/* /mnt/new_root mount --bind binds only the root file system, not any other or temporary file systems mounted on top of it (like udev, /dev/pts, etc.). That allows you to copy your static /dev file system (as created by untaring the stage3). > Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once > to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over > again. It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is > the last time. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
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