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Re: swapping partitions including /



on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:56:05PM +0200, Svante Signell (svante.signell@telia.com) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Anyone has a good solution to exchange / mounted on /dev/sda5 and /tmp
> mounted on /dev/var. I have due to space problems with /
             ^^^^^^^^
No such creature.  Post your /etc/fstab.

> I've moved around partitions earlier using cp -a, but not /. What
> about unmounting / etc? What about the boot sector?

Your best bet is to boot a rescue disk (or partition) and treat / as a
non-system partition.  Mount just the one partition you want to move,
create a target for it, and move or archive as needed.

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