Re: Copy entire /usr
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:41 +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
> Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:28, Raven a écrit :
> [...]
> > After I rsync, how do I tell the system to use the new /usr folder
> > (since I am not doing the whole "remount" thing)?
>
> As you seem to be unable to have a physical access to the server, I
> suppose you can not go to single user mode. If you try "init S" or "init
> 1", you will probably loose you network connection.
>
> I would certainly try this :
> 1 - mount the "/" (root) partition a second time on a mount point (ie on
> /mnt) as Linux can do this. On this second mount point, you will not have
> the sub-filesystem "sdc1" mounted on /mnt/usr. So you will be able to
> alter /usr on the root FS.
> 2 - rsync the bad /usr (sdc1) on /mnt/usr (it will theorically copy the
> contents of /usr (sdc1) on /usr (root), behind the one mounted from sdc1
> 3 - if sdc hangs, reboot and resume from (1), it will resume the copy
> 4 - remove the "/usr" line in the fstab ;
> 5 - reboot (the sdc1 fs will not be mounted over /usr)
>
> But this solution SHOULD work IN THEORY !!! I never tried it. someone
> might have a better idea.
It worked!
Thank you all for your help and especially Francois for providing a very
fast solution :D
-Raven
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