Charles Howse wrote:
A partition by definition is a filesystem (unless you are talking about lvm, but that is a filesystem on a logical volume (partition) that can span multiple physical volumes). A partition cannot be mounted unless the fileysytem has been created.-----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...?let it be filesystems. never heard about more filesystems on one
Could you show me an example of how to mount a partition while in rescue
mode, please?
partition or one filesystem on many partitions
After referring to man mount, it appears you are correct.
My apologies. :-)
However, it is possible to mount a portion of a filesystem. See the --bind or --rbind options.
Also consider how nfs and samba shares work. There a piece of a filesystem begining at a particular point is allowed to be mounted remotely.
Be careful here!! In the shell the '*' does NOT find/copy hidden files or folders (those whose name begins with a "." such as " .bashrc".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
To confirm that a simple comparison of the results of "ls -d *" and "ls -d .*" in your home directory will show the difference.
now that you have copied all the files you wanted to reside on hdaStop...I'm lost.
(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
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)
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