I found the email from some years ago, advising to bind mount / and copy /dev to the new partition from the bind mounted / partition. It worked again this time. Thank you again.
Alan On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a > new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot > find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system had my / partition, > /dev/sdc1. One day recently, that partition became inaccessable. After > quickly installing Ubuntu on a different drive, that root partition > eventually showed up again. > > So I've been able to boot Gentoo again off the separate /boot partition on > /dev/sda1. I need to move that / partition. I have several other > partitions mounted off this one, mainly as /usr and maybe /usr/local/, and > some storage partitions mounted to my home directory. > > I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5 mounted > as /newroot, using > # cp -ax / /newroot > > I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall there > are some other steps necessary. I changed /etc/fstab, and the grub2 > grub.cfg from ubuntu, the entry for this kernel. The boot stalls at a > certain point. > > May I ask what steps are necessary to do this? > > Thank you, > > Alan Davis >
