Robin Laing composed on 2024-12-01 22:08 (UTC-0700):
> On upgrade to Fedora 41, I got stuck due to lack of space on "/"
> partition. I had an unused partition that was more than double the size
> of the present root partition.
> I rsyncd the data across to the new partition
> sudo rsync -avPAHXx --numeric-ids --exclude="lost+found"
> -exclude="home" --exclude="boot" / /mnt/TEMP/
> The above line was recommended on a web page.
> I made sure the partition was in the crypttab file.
> I did a test mount of the drive using fstab into the /mnt/TEMP directory.
> I changed the setting in /etc/fstab to the new partition and rebooted.
> Failed.
> I did other stuff and finally changed /etc/default/grub to point to the
> new partition and remade the grub.cfg file.
> System boots into basic.target and freezes.
> This is still in f39.
> There must be an "official" procedure to do this.
> Somewhere there is a setting that points to the present root drive that
> I cannot change.
> If there is no official way, I do know that there is a suggestion to
> just change the UUID's for the drives which I think is not the best option.
Try including rd.hostonly=0 on kernel cmdline in bootloader. If that doesn't get
you going, try it plus rd.auto=1 or rd.auto along with it.
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