Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points
"Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <pagan_prince@bigfire-hsv.org> writes:
> If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?)
Ctrl+Alt+Bksp will kill your X server; if you're running under a
display manager [gdm, kdm, xdm, wdm], that will probably restart the
server, so you'd need to log in on the console as root and run
/etc/init.d/xdm stop (or equivalent).
> and make temp folders and start moving stuff around, can I just
> rearrange everything (while making the appropriate changes in
> FSTAB)? Or can I just change FSTAB and reboot and everything is
> miraculously where it should be?
Just changing /etc/fstab won't cause the data to magically move
between partitions. If I were doing this level of shuffling, I'd
probably shut the system down to single-user mode ('shutdown' or
'telinit 1' as root). If you're trying to move the root partition,
I'd do it while booted from your favorite restore media; remember in
that case to also update your bootloader configuration to know where
the new root partition is.
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