Re: How to move my / partition

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On 02/17/2010 09:39 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
You will probably find a reference to the old UUID instead of a
device. It should be using the UUID from the kernel command line,
but it does not sound like it is. Maybe it is time for a bug report?

As far as editing /etc/mtab, this will not do you any good, and may
cause you problems on shutdown. mtab is a list of mounted file
systems. It is not a complete list, as it does not show anything
mounted before / is remounted rw. Also, some things mount file
systems without putting an entry in mtab.

Mikkel
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