Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

I bind mounted / then copied /dev to the new partition. This was advice given earlier, the first time it happened to me: I finally found an earlier replay to a similar request from me. All is now well. Thank you for the advice. Alan On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dale wrote: > Francisco A

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

> Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab > to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often. A good idea. If for some reason you don't have disk image backups...grab something like system rescue cd, and partimage the whole drive and the restore from it... ~d

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

On Monday 23 November 2009 20:35:34 Alan E. Davis wrote: > Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to > a new partition? Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

Francisco Ares wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale > 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 cann

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale 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 / part

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

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 beca

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

Alan E. Davis writes: > 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. /dev needs at least the entries co

[gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

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 q