On 02/17/2010 09:39 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> I copied my current / to the new partition with "cp -a".
> I then added a new stanza to grub.conf with root=UUID=,
> and made a similar change to fstab.
>
> To my surprise, when I re-booted I found it was with the old / ,
> and /etc/fstab had been
Mikkel wrote:
>> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
>> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
>> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
>> Any help or suggestions gratefully received.
>>
> You may want to take a look at the gp
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> So you are saying, basically, that one can safely copy /
> on a running system?
yes.
as mentioned by roberto, best done at 'level 1' as root. my apoligies for not
mentioning such and '/proc'.
i do tend to be 'terse' and forgetful of this being a 'tsl' [tech support
list
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> So you are saying, basically, that one can safely copy /
> on a running system?
There are no particular problems in doing that.
I would use cp, with the option to not enter subfilesystems
(you really do not want /proc) and options to copy everything
(e.g. extended attrs).
g wrote:
I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
>
>> But unfortunately these are not LVM partitions, as I should have said.
>
> to be *t
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> No, grub has an info page:
>
> info grub
this is true.
i am 'old school' and keep forgetting about 'info'.
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On 02/16/2010 07:49 PM, g wrote:
>> Chris Tyler wrote:
>>
I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
>
>> But unfortunately these are not LVM
> Chris Tyler wrote:
>
>>> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
>>> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
>>> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
> But unfortunately these are not LVM partitions, as I should have said.
to b
Chris Tyler wrote:
>> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
>> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
>> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
> If your / filesystem is on a logical volume, which is the default for
> F12 instal
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:29 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
>
> Is there any safe way of doing this while the m
On 02/16/2010 08:29 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
>
> Is there any safe way of doing this while the machine is r
> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop
> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6),
> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness.
>
> Is there any safe way of doing this while the machine is running?
> Unfortunately the CD drive does not
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