Mark Knecht: > Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no > longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are > lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. > (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...)
That happened to me too ;-) But the reason was quickly clear: I had deleted /usr instead of /usr/*! Remember: > 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: > cd /mnt/something/usr > rm -rf * > NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the > mount point for the new partition; Let us suppose that your /etc/fstab looks like: /dev/hda1 /boot <type> <opts> <dump/pass> /dev/hda2 / <type> <opts> <dump/pass> /dev/hda3 /usr <type> <opts> <dump/pass> The first and simplest try: reboot from a livecd, then: mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/something ls /mnt/something/usr If /mnt/something/usr doesn't exist, then: mkdir /mnt/something/usr reboot You could check that the new /usr partition is there, before rebooting: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/something_else ls /mnt/something_else The old /usr contents should be there. Why not? So, if your reboot doesn't work, reboot again from a livecd and check /etc/fstab. Let me/us know! Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
