On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:03:49 -0600 "Christian Fredrickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a disk drive that required a new driver be compiled on RedHat 9 in > order to work. I want to move / to the new drive. I mapped the new drive as > /newRoot and used find . -depth -print | cpio -padumV /newRoot to copy / to > the new drive. > > I edit fstab to mount old root to /newRoot and mount the new drive as /. I > reboot and get an error in e2fsck while the partitions are being checked. > Are there any steps that I am missing in order to move this partition? > > Chris > > Hi Christian, Shot in the dark here... did you change your root= line in your boot cmdline to point to the new device? Not sure it would matter but it's worth a try. After making your root copy, unmount the drive and fsck it _before_ rebooting to see if there are any problems. Cheers, Sean P.S. "cp -pax . /newRoot" is another way to make the copy. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
