I bind mounted / then copied /dev to the new partition. This was advice given earlier, the first time it happened to me: I finally found an earlier replay to a similar request from me. All is now well. Thank you for the advice. Alan On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dale wrote: > Francisco Ares wrote: > > >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale > rdalek1967@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Alan E. Davis wrote: >> >> Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / >> filesystem to a new partition? I recall someone helping me >> with this before, but cannot find the email. The oldest of >> three drives on my system had my / partition, /dev/sdc1. One >> day recently, that partition became inaccessable. After >> quickly installing Ubuntu on a different drive, that root >> partition eventually showed up again. >> So I've been able to boot Gentoo again off the separate /boot >> partition on /dev/sda1. I need to move that / partition. I >> have several other partitions mounted off this one, mainly as >> /usr and maybe /usr/local/, and some storage partitions >> mounted to my home directory. >> I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at >> /dev/sdb5 mounted as /newroot, using >> # cp -ax / /newroot >> >> I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I >> recall there are some other steps necessary. I changed >> /etc/fstab, and the grub2 grub.cfg from ubuntu, the entry for >> this kernel. The boot stalls at a certain point. May I >> ask what steps are necessary to do this? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Alan Davis >> >> >> I have done this in the past. I usually boot the CD, make mount >> points for old and new, then mount the old and new that I want to >> copy. Then I do a cp -av /path/to/old /path/to/new/ and let it >> copy. This can take quite a bit of time tho. It seems those >> little bitty files take the longest. Maybe omitting the -v option >> would help on that? >> >> Once you get it copied over, edit your fstab file as needed on the >> new side and install the bootloader as well. After that, it >> usually just works. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> P. S. Sorry for not including some fancy tarball stuff. ;-) >> >> >> >> Well, as far as I know one would like to edit the bootloader configuration >> as well, so as to reflect the new root directory. >> >> Or has anyone written this before and I didn't notice? ;-) >> >> Francisco >> >> -- >> "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you >> and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one >> idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - >> George Bernard Shaw >> > > If it needs to be then sure. I usually move things file wise with cp then > move things physically in the case as well. My OS is always on hda. The > grub config is on hda1 and grub bootloader is on the MBR of hda as well. > So, I don't have to edit grub on mine. I do boot once by using the edit > feature of grub, just to make sure before I move things physically. > > You do have to plan these things tho. Wouldn't hurt to write down on paper > where everything is and don't erase anything until you are sure your ducks > are in a row. Maybe even write notes on the drive with a post it note. > Dale > > :-) :-) > >