From: Fuper <futurist@directvinternet.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Moving root
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:52:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319015020.344272015D8D@chiba.3jane.net> (raw)
Tomorrow I'm taking the LPI 101 certification exam but tonight I'm feeling
stupid because I'm not sure how to move the root partition under Gentoo
Linux. It's the devfs that confuses me.
I replicated the / partition onto a new SCSI partition using
star -c /etc | star -x -C /mnt/partition
and so forth. I replicated /dev this same way.
Of course I edited the /etc/fstab file on the new root.
when I first booted the new partition I noticed a message
at the end, after executing my /etc/runlevels/default/local
script, complaining that
cat: mounts # no such file or directory
I looked at /sbin/rc and saw there that it contains a line
to "cat mounts" which I changed to "cat /proc/mounts".
The error message is no longer produced, but in
checking the mounted filesystems I see that I now have
a "new" filesystem that I didn't have before. I.e.
# df -h
/dev/sdb1 471M 153M 293M 35% /
none 471M 153M 293M 35% /dev
What the heck is this "none" device mounted at /dev??
Q: is the "cat mounts" command in /sbin/rc an error?
Q: how should I properly populate /dev on a new
root partition?
Q: what can explain the "none" filesystem mounted
at my new /dev
[I'm still booting the old root partition until I understand
what's going on]
next reply other threads:[~2002-03-19 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-19 1:52 Fuper [this message]
2002-03-20 4:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Further observations on moving root Fuper
2002-03-20 17:55 ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-03-20 19:10 ` Christian HOFFMANN
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