On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I Installed woody and all its filesystem on one reiserfs partition /dev/hdb1. Now, >because my beloved debian has grown over time, I'd like to move the entire 1.6 GB >/usr directory to a reiserfs /dev/hdb6 partition. > I had a go at it mounting a /usr-bis directory to /dev/hdb6 and issuing a "cp -A >/usr /usr-bis", modifying fstab, and renaming the old /usr to /usr.backup and the >/usr-bis to /usr. > When I restarted it all, debian (or reiserfs ?)complained many times on something >wrong with the files, the dependencies, and so on. > > What steps should I take to fix it, to move to the new /dev/hdb6 partition? > I am not sure what exactly went wrong for you but here is what I would do to make a new reiserfs partition and copy /usr to it.
1. First ensure your kernel has reiserfs support built in. If not compile a new kernel and compile it in. This is easier than using initrd and loading modules etc. 2. Make the filesystem on the device. mkreiserfs /dev/hdb6 3. Mount the new device mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb6 /mnt 4. Copy over the /user files cd /usr cp -av . /mnt (Nb. I did some testing and found that all the following seem to create a usr directory under /mnt and copy everything below that. In other words you end up with /mnt/usr/allusrfiles instead of /mnt/alluserfiles) cp -a /usr /mnt cp -a /usr/ /mnt cp -a /usr /mnt/ So don't use these commands but first change dir into /usr and then use the command above (cp -av . /mnt) - it worked OK. 5. Edit /etc/fstab and put an entry like: /dev/hdb6 /usr reiserfs defaults 0 0 6. Unmount the old /usr partition umount /dev/hdb? (? whatever partition it was on.) 7. Mount the new reiserfs /usr partition mount /usr (Should now work since you have updated fstab) If all works well and you have reiserfs compiled into your kernel then rebooting should be OK. Nb. Any problems or things don't seem correct then change back your /etc/fstab and don't reboot until you are sure things are working. Regards. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
