Timothy Murphy 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.) The system, with / on the new partition, seems to be working fine. [I followed Mikkel's advice, and used the gparted Live CD on the hard disk, copying the old system to its new place with "cp -a".] I found that I had made a silly mistake; I had modified the old /etc/fstab rather than the new one. However, I am surprised that the root=UUID=... in the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf does not seem to have any effect; if there is a conflict with /etc/fstab it is the latter that is followed. Also, there did not seem to be any need to modify initrd in any way - I am using the same one with no change. I'm not sure why it should be necessary to modify initrd? I opened mine up, and it did not seem to contain any mention of sda or sdb . -- 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
