On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan E. Davis wrote: > >> Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a >> new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot >> find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system had my / partition, >> /dev/sdc1. One day recently, that partition became inaccessable. After >> quickly installing Ubuntu on a different drive, that root partition >> eventually showed up again. >> So I've been able to boot Gentoo again off the separate /boot partition on >> /dev/sda1. I need to move that / partition. I have several other >> partitions mounted off this one, mainly as /usr and maybe /usr/local/, and >> some storage partitions mounted to my home directory. >> I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5 >> mounted as /newroot, using >> # cp -ax / /newroot >> >> I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall there >> are some other steps necessary. I changed /etc/fstab, and the grub2 >> grub.cfg from ubuntu, the entry for this kernel. The boot stalls at a >> certain point. >> May I ask what steps are necessary to do this? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Alan Davis >> > > I have done this in the past. I usually boot the CD, make mount points for > old and new, then mount the old and new that I want to copy. Then I do a cp > -av /path/to/old /path/to/new/ and let it copy. This can take quite a bit > of time tho. It seems those little bitty files take the longest. Maybe > omitting the -v option would help on that? > > Once you get it copied over, edit your fstab file as needed on the new side > and install the bootloader as well. After that, it usually just works. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > P. S. Sorry for not including some fancy tarball stuff. ;-) >
Well, as far as I know one would like to edit the bootloader configuration as well, so as to reflect the new root directory. Or has anyone written this before and I didn't notice? ;-) Francisco -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
