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- From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: moving the / partition
- Message-ID: <264@ftms.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 18:51:44 GMT
- References: <64462@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
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- In article <64462@hydra.gatech.EDU> meshlema@cmdl.gatech.edu (Matthew Eshleman) writes:
- <
- <I just became the system administrator for a new sparc IPX. I
- <recently attempted to install xview3 when I found out that I
- <had only 2.5 megs left on my / partition. I want to move / from
- <sd0a to sd3b, and I was looking for some advice on how to go
- <about this. Is it as simple as umounting the / partition, then
- <remounting / to sd3b, rename the old / to something else, then copy the correct files over to the new partition. And of course
- <editing the /etc/fstab file. For some reason this seems too easy.
-
- The first question is... why are you trying to install this software in the
- root partition. It should be installed somewhere on /usr, or on another disk
- you have attached to the IPX. It should not go in /.
-
- Also, you can't move /, without causing problems with how your system will
- boot. I can guarentee that id you move the files in root the system will
- not boot.
-
- Don't move /, move the software you want to install.
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