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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: How do I configure a separate disk for /usr?
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 00:43:34 GMT
- References: <32498@adm.brl.mil>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <32498@adm.brl.mil> kim@arthur.ama.ttu.edu (Kim Andersen) writes:
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- | Due to a shortage of disk space, I am forced to try to use a separate
- | disk for the /usr filesystem. I have set /etc/fstab to point to the
- | new disk for mounting /usr. However, the system doesn't seem to be
- | able to find the new disk. It's hanging halfway through boot (right
- | after "root on dev 0x1620, swap on dev 0x1621"). The system console
- | never responds, but a terminal on another port comes up and I can login
- | and see that the mounting of /usr has failed.
-
- Presumable /dev/usr is still pointing to partition 6 on your system
- drive, and you didn't modify /etc/fstab to point to the new location.
- I'd recommend booting the system in single user mode, and using ed
- to change /etc/fstab.
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