Mikkel wrote: >> I want to move the / partition on a (very ancient) Fedora-12 desktop >> from one SCSI disk to another (/dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda6), >> because the second disk is showing some signs of sickness. >> Any help or suggestions gratefully received. >> > You may want to take a look at the gparted project - they have hard > drive install documentation as well, as CD/USB/PXE boot images. > > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livehd.php I followed this advice, which enabled me to run the gparted Live CD from my hard disk. I found I had to choose the command-line interface, as if I chose the default X interface I was asked for the root password, which I did not know. (Pressing Return did not work.) However, the command-line interface opened with root as user. I copied my current / to the new partition with "cp -a". I then added a new stanza to grub.conf with root=UUID=<new UUID>, and made a similar change to fstab. To my surprise, when I re-booted I found it was with the old / , and /etc/fstab had been re-written with the old UUID. (/boot/grub/grub.conf still had the new UUID, but this was ignored.) I looked at the initrd I was using, but I saw no mention of sdb (or sda) in this. I wonder should I edit /etc/mtab (which has the current / partition). And if I need to re-make initrd how do I do this? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
