Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:10:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Trying to move /usr Message-ID: <748444.92682.qm@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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Good morning everyone, I am trying to migrate my /usr to a newly installed SCSI drive. Up until yesterday I had /, /var, /usr on a 5 Gig drive and my /home was on another 60 Gig drive, which was fine because it had no GUI and functioned mostly as a server. Last night I added a third drive, with a capacity around 18G; since my other two drives are hard-wired in /boot/device.hints, there were no problems with device numbering. I wrote down the device name (/dev/da2) and proceeded to sysinstall to first create a FreeBSD partition and then the only slice within that partition. I named it /user. I then tarred up /usr Tar –cf /user/usr.tar /usr Extracted the tar file and moved everything one directory up, because otherwise everything were under /user/usr. I made the necessary adjustnments in /etc/fstab, that is I switched /usr and /user around. After reboot, I wasn’t getting the prompt, since the binaries for displaying the prompt are located under /usr/bin (or /usr/sbin?) and my guess was that /usr wasn’t mounting properly. I restarted the machine, this time going into single user mode. Trying to mount –a gave me an error message: Error mounting /usr/home. I then created home directory under the new /usr, I tried mount –a, this time it worked, but when I rebooted, I wasn’t getting my home directory. When I login as an unprivileged user – michael, the message is something like: “User has no home directory”. For now I reverted to using the old /usr. Anyone attempted to migrate /usr and fell for similar kind of problems? Any suggestions will be appreciated. P.S. I am not next to that machine right now, so I can’t provide the exact fstab or dmesg output. Thanks in advance, Michael
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