on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:10:00AM -0400, Marc Shapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Let me explain what I have done, so far. Then I will explain my > problems. > > I want to set up separate partitions on my box for tracking Woody > (Testing). So far, I have created a new partition for / (/dev/hda11) > and cp'd everything from my current / partition to it. At the moment, > I am still using my original partitions for /var, /tmp, /usr, > /usr/local, and /home. Once I have everything working and before I > upgrade to Woody I will make new partitions for /usr and /usr/local. > I plan to use the same partitions for /var, /tmp, and /home for both > Stable and Testing. Is this acceptable?
No. /var carries state for the packaging system and cannot be shared. You may be able to share /home and /usr/local. You can share /tmp. > 2) If I boot to stable and then run df everything is fine. The output > shows /dev/hda1 mounted on / as it should be. I can then mount my new > partition (/dev/hda11) and run df again and it still displays everything > correctly. If I boot to Testing, however, and run df it shows that > /dev/hda1 (NOT /dev/hda11) is mounted on / even though the stats that it > shows are correct for /dev/hda11. /etc/mtab may be fuxnored. What's /proc/mounts say? It's definitive. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Disclaimer: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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