On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:36:16PM -0000, richard@the-place.net wrote: > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with > no keyboard. Anyway it was unusable.) I thought it might be an initrd > problem, and had a half-baked memory that chrooting into the root > partition and running makeinitrd or somesuch would solve it. But as > usual I got errors from nonexistant /dev and /proc filesystems in the > chroot and so could not build a new initrd. So I copied /dev back > where it came from and reverted fstab and all was well. > > I might have been more persistent but had a slow (and expensive) i'net > connection so it was easier to give up. > > What should I have done? > How did you move it. What sequence of commands did you use? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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