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On 17/03/2017 18:24, tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Finally I moved to my new root and it seems to be $HOME |
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> enough to wiupe the old root. |
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> The old root is on a separate partition to which I will move |
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> the contents of the new root after wiping the new root. |
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> May be the following question is born from to much worry, but... |
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> First I thought: Mount the old root to a certain mountpoint |
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> somewhere, cd into it (as root) and do a rm -rf.... |
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> Then I saw symlinks directly pointing to /usr/lib... (for example) |
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> right into my new root... |
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How on earth did you manage that? Provide examples with full background |
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info. Sounds like you might have been monkeying with PREFIX and not |
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setting proper chroots, or similar |
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> What is a recommended way to do what I am trying to do without |
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> a) deleting anything outside the old root |
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> b) doing it not TOOO SLOW |
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> c) without leaving filesystem debris somewhere (for example after |
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> a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 count=1 bs=4096 |
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> d) anything else I forgot to think about |
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Yeah, you forgot the part where you realise we can't see and think what |
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you see and think. |
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As Grant said, we don't really know what you are up to from the given |
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information. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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