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 .
For future reference, it is a lot easier to associate partitions with a single top-level directory than with multiple ones, as you have chosen to to. For example, if I assign a partition to /home, I can just mount it there in fstab, without needing to use the symlink indirection you use:
/dev/hda4 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
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 .
At what point does it "just" hang? What is the last message on screen? And how long do you wait ... are you sure it is a true hang and not a problem that times out after, say, 3 minutes?
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 .
Where does your system have libncurses.so.5 (the "missing" library)? On my systems,it is always in /lib, a hard place to lose.
I have mounted hda5 & hda6 in my fstab .
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
ln -s /mnt/hda6/usr /usr
This should all work fine, assuming the symlinks are created immediately after the partitiions are mounted during the init process.
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.
I assume the dmesg example is from the single-user boot, not the one that "just hangs". So it doesn't tell us what is up with the hang. Next time, please also include the output of ...
ls -l /
df... and if you are reporting the results of two different boot/init sequences (single user and multiuser) please be VERY VERY clear about which attempt each result goes with.
Please advice.
Thank you for your help in advance.
bj
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