-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 March 2004 02:04 pm, thedogfarted wrote: > > Ummm...I thought we mounted filesystems rather than partitions...? > > Could you show me an example of how to mount a partition while in rescue > > mode, please? > > let it be filesystems. never heard about more filesystems on one > partition or one filesystem on many partitions After referring to man mount, it appears you are correct. My apologies. :-) > > for example i had to move all data form /dev/hda6 (my previous /home) to > /dev/hda3 (newly created) > > #mkdir /mnt/oldhome > #mkdir /mnt/newhome > > #mount /dev/hda6 -t ext3 /mnt/oldhome > #mount /dev/hda3 -t ext3 /mnt/newhome > > #cp -r /mnt/oldhome/* /mnt/newhome > > >>now that you have copied all the files you wanted to reside on hda > >>(probably all /boot partition and / without /home and /tmp) do what you > >>want with hdc - probably move files that /home is instead of previous / > >>etc and then edit grub.conf and fstab, it could look like this > > > > Stop...I'm lost. > > I was with you until we started moving "files that /home is..." > > I must not be reading correctly, it doesn't make sense. :-) > > probably i missed something there (as i said english is not my native, > it's quite hard to think in two languages :) > > the idea was to move contents of /home that they reside on / of your > filesystem so you can mount it. If /dev/hdc2 was your / (and you have > copied it's contents to hda2) then you can do the following: > > #mkdir /mnt/oldroot > #mount /dev/hdc2 -t ext3 /mnt/oldroot > > delete all you have moved to hda2 > > #cp -r /home/* / > > and delete the old home > > #rm -rf /home OK, I understand now...thanks. - -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFATNwV/S+VsB9RMKgRAnxRAJ9Y7MPTzmAF9ChqE/m2OGz1+MY4GACeM97F VkQb3Ws0xJBwBSIuxqhw75M= =A9tj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
