Try using parted to move the / to the new drive. It is much easier and very straight forward. First read how to use parted though.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Estabrooks > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 7:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Moving root partition > > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
