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wonko at wonkology

Nov 23, 2009, 12:51 PM

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Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

Alan E. Davis writes:

> 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.

/dev needs at least the entries console and null, and tty1 for splash
things (I think). You could create them like this:
mknod c 5 1 /dev/console
mknod c 1 3 /dev/null
mknod c 4 1 /dev/tty1

Or copy over your original /dev directory (without the stuff udev added)
from the old system:
mount -o bind / /mnt
cp -a /mnt/dev /newroot/

Wonko

peter at humphrey

Nov 29, 2009, 5:02 AM

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Re: Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition [In reply to]

On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote:

> I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster
> now!

Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks
quite usable now, though it wasn't a few years ago when I last tried it.

This desktop might even find itself running Ubuntu. Now there's an
about-face!

--
Rgds
Peter

marcusw at cox

Nov 29, 2009, 9:29 AM

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Re: Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition [In reply to]

On 11/29/2009 8:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote:
>
>
>> I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster
>> now!
>>
>
> Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks
> quite usable now, though it wasn't a few years ago when I last tried it.
>
> This desktop might even find itself running Ubuntu. Now there's an
> about-face!
>
>
Check out lxde, it's actually lightweight. Xfce4 is not light enough for
my desktop: 2ghz pentium 4, 256mb ram. Lxde runs great, though!

Marcus

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