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I found the email from some years ago, advising to bind mount / and copy |
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/dev to the new partition from the bind mounted / partition. It worked |
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again this time. Thank you again. |
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Alan |
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a |
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> new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot |
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> find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system had my / partition, |
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> /dev/sdc1. One day recently, that partition became inaccessable. After |
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> quickly installing Ubuntu on a different drive, that root partition |
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> eventually showed up again. |
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> So I've been able to boot Gentoo again off the separate /boot partition on |
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> /dev/sda1. I need to move that / partition. I have several other |
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> partitions mounted off this one, mainly as /usr and maybe /usr/local/, and |
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> some storage partitions mounted to my home directory. |
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> I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5 mounted |
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> as /newroot, using |
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> # cp -ax / /newroot |
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> I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall there |
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> are some other steps necessary. I changed /etc/fstab, and the grub2 |
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> grub.cfg from ubuntu, the entry for this kernel. The boot stalls at a |
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> certain point. |
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> May I ask what steps are necessary to do this? |
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> Thank you, |
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> Alan Davis |
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