Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Arno Schuring writes: > There might be. Try umount -f > > The information about current mounts is recorded in /etc/mtab > (basically an old relic, but sadly still not put down). The real > (kernel) information about mounts is in /proc/mounts. When copying root > filesystems or working on a read-on

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-17 Thread Arno Schuring
Martin McCormick (mar...@x.it.okstate.edu on 2011-08-16 06:30 -0500): > > Is there a way to convince fdisk that hdb1 is not > mounted? There might be. Try umount -f The information about current mounts is recorded in /etc/mtab (basically an old relic, but sadly still not put down). The real

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-16 Thread Martin McCormick
you write: > Have you tried with "gparted" or "cfdisk"? The first it's a GUI based > tool which usually manages very well these situations and the latter is a > more convenient tool (text based) when it comes to manage partitions from > command line. I haven't tried cfdisk yet so I will give it a

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:21:05 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > You write: >> I'm not sure in what stage of the migration are you right now (I did >> not follow the full thread), but have you tried to boot from a LiveCD >> and work from there? > > I have been avoiding that. I don't know if th

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-16 Thread Martin McCormick
You write: > I'm not sure in what stage of the migration are you right now (I did not > follow the full thread), but have you tried to boot from a LiveCD and > work from there? I have been avoiding that. I don't know if this is peculiar to Dell mother boards, but every so often, my CMOS bo

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:30:41 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=10M, I got a copy of a boot > drive's image on what will eventually be the new boot drive. Clonezilla does the migration job quite well. If the target disk/partition is bigger than the old f

Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-16 Thread Martin McCormick
After using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=10M, I got a copy of a boot drive's image on what will eventually be the new boot drive. The new drive is about half again as big as the old drive and research plus several previous answers from this list has lead me to try the following strategy: Use fdis