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=,
> 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
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
Mikkel 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 gp
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> So you are saying, basically, that one can safely copy /
> on a running system?
yes.
as mentioned by roberto, best done at 'level 1' as root. my apoligies for not
mentioning such and '/proc'.
i do tend to be 'terse' and forgetful of this being a 'tsl' [tech support
list
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> So you are saying, basically, that one can safely copy /
> on a running system?
There are no particular problems in doing that.
I would use cp, with the option to not enter subfilesystems
(you really do not want /proc) and options to copy everything
(e.g. extended attrs).
g 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.
>
>> But unfortunately these are not LVM partitions, as I should have said.
>
> to be *t
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> No, grub has an info page:
>
> info grub
this is true.
i am 'old school' and keep forgetting about 'info'.
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On 02/16/2010 07:49 PM, g wrote:
>> Chris Tyler 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.
>
>> But unfortunately these are not LVM
> Chris Tyler 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.
> But unfortunately these are not LVM partitions, as I should have said.
to b
Chris Tyler 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.
> If your / filesystem is on a logical volume, which is the default for
> F12 instal
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:29 +, 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.
>
> Is there any safe way of doing this while the m
On 02/16/2010 08:29 AM, 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.
>
> Is there any safe way of doing this while the machine is r
> 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.
>
> Is there any safe way of doing this while the machine is running?
> Unfortunately the CD drive does not
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.
Is there any safe way of doing this while the machine is running?
Unfortunately the CD drive does not appear to be
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