To mount / read-only try
umount -r /
Then use dd (or cp -dpR ) to move the entire contents of / to the new /
which is mounted somewhere else, edit your fstab and reboot. I think you
should be able to pull off the mount swap without rebooting, but I'm not
exactly sure how to go about doing it.
-CJO-
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
>I wish to move my root partition from hda1 to hdb2. I figured the easiest way
>to do this is to remount the root partition as read-only and copy the files.
>But when I issue "mount -t e2fs -o remount,ro /dev/hda1 /" I get an error
>specifying that it's in use, and if I boot as "linux single" and try the same
>thing it ignores me completely. (Not even an error message; it just does
>nothing.) I thought about kludging lilo so it drops me into a console, but I
>don't want to do something as silly as this unless I have to.
>
>Thanks for your help in advance.
>
>
>
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