On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 01:02, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 1:55 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > > > > I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it > > > > takes precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr > > > > works, you'll have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, > > > > delete what is in the /usr partition under / (and probably that > > > > /usr directory also) and then remount your partition that holds > > > > the stuff from /usr. > > > > > > Since by this time the new /usr will be mounted, are you saying > > > that I won't be able to see the original /usr? If it's still > > > there as a directory, can't I just delete the directory once I'm > > > sure everything is ok? > > > > Sorry to vanish on you, had to get some sleep. ;) > > > These time differences make conversations rather protracted, don't > they? > > > Jan is incorrect only in that you do not delete the "old" /usr > > *directory* but only its contents - you still need the empty > > directory to serve as the mount point for the partition that now > > contains the /usr files. This is the same principle that is at work > > when you find that you cannot mount a floppy as "/mnt/floppy" if > > the /mnt/floppy directory does not already exist. That's why Jack's > > instructions called for unmounting the "new" /usr partition, then > > deleting the contents of the "old" /usr directory (but not the > > directory itself), then remounting the /usr partition. You'll > > recall that this is done in single-user mode, where nothing in /usr > > is actively in use (so unmounting/remounting it is therefore > > possible). > > Just doing a last check before carrying on with the procedure, when I > found things that concern me. > > /holding has a locked /lost+found directory > > Some directory sizes are not identical with their /usr sources: > > /bin - old 44.0 KB, new 36 KB > /include - old 16 KB, new 12 KB > /lib - old 44 KB, new 40 KB > > The contents of /bin, in both cases shows 1956 items - 1955 files > (135.8 MB Total) > > /include and /lib appear to be equally matched, so what exactly is > being reported by these differences?
I bet you did cp not cp -a.... So that happened is that the symlinks in the original dir became files in the new directory. The -a is archive and what it does is copy symlinks as symlinks (hard or soft) regular ol cp sees 2 files and copies them over. James > > Anne > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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