From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 20 15:25:17 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE0416A420 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:25:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD07613C468 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:25:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l7KFL9h0044943; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:21:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l7KFL9J7044942; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:21:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:21:09 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20070820152109.GD44640@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <748444.92682.qm@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <748444.92682.qm@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trying to move /usr X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:25:17 -0000 On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:10:12AM -0400, Michael S wrote: > 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. You have that backwards. You created one slice on the disk and one partition within that slice. Minor thing, but can confuse communication. > 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. I am not completely sure just what you mean by 'moved one directory up' and 'switched /usr and /user around'. It sounds an awful lot like you are saying you modified /etc/fstab to mount this new partition (probably /dev/da2s1a, though the 'a' might be something else) as /user instead of /user/usr. But, the new partition needs to be mounted as /usr > 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. I guess we need the actual /etc/fstab to be sure just what has been done. Maybe also some dmesg output that shows the disk devices could be useful too. ////jerry > > Thanks in advance, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >