Hi !
I have a Red Hat 8.0 on a intel 2.4 machine with 512 MB .
I have kernel 2.4.20-30.8-legacy & 2.4.20-30.8-legacy bigmem.
I used to have all my directories /var , /tmp , /usr , /home under one partition / .
Thanks to everybody , now I was able to re-partition my drive into extended drives (drives < 4) and move my /var , /tmp into hda5 & ,my /usr , /home into /hda6 .
Bu I am facing one problem.
When I boot my system logger does not see the /var/log which has been moved to the new location .
The system just hangs .
It should not really hang, though it might wait 3 minutes or so to revoder (a typical timeout for this sort of problem, but I'm just guessing at the value).
In any case, you do have a problem, and it is that your /etc/fstab does not contain entries to mount the other partitions. The file you attached only has an entry for the root filesystem:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts
You need a series of entries for the other partitions. I don't have such a system running here, so I can only give you an approximate illustration of what you need, not a working example. On one of my systems --
/dev/hda4 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
-- mounts a separate partition at /home . You need similar entries for all your partitions. But if I read your description correctly, you have a different problem too ... you tried to put 2 top-level directories into a single partition.
You can do that, but doing it is a bit icky. What you need to do is something like this (I'll use /usr and /home in the example). In fstab, put
/dev/hda5 /custom1 ext3 defaults 0 2
Then create 2 symlinks:
ln -s /custom1/home /home
ln -s /custom1/usr /usrOh, you will of course have o create the mount point /custom1 as well.
When I boot in single mode by passing an argument to my kernel that does show in the dmesg in the new location .
In addtion when I run a command like 'clear ' it shows that it could not find the library to run it .
I doubt it, at least for the actual example (I don't know what commends you think are "like" clear, so I can't generalize from your instance).
What you probably get is a message like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ clear -bash: clear: command not found
That's because the clear command is itself in /usr/bin, and your system is having trouble finding that directory. (clear only uses libraries that are normally in /lib, not ones in /usr/lib, so I doubt you are seeing clear unable to find libc6 or libncurses.)
I have mounted hda5 & hda6 in my fstab .
Not the one you attached to your message.
I did create soft link for my new var , new tmp & new usr to the the /var , /tmp , /usr as ffs :-
ln -s /mnt/hda5/var /var ln -s /mnt/hda5/tmp /tmp
This should serve; it is similar o my sugestion above.
ln -s /mnt/hda6/usr /usr
This too.
I moved the old files using the ff commands:-
cd source directory
cp -ax * /mnt/usr5/var
or
cd /src/dir ; tar cf - . | (cd /dest/dir && tar xvf - )
But still it does not work .
Please find attached the dmesg & library error and fstab.
Please advice.
Thank you for your help in advance.
bj
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