From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: System stops because /var/log not found after moving to new partition Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:59:29 -0800 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20050226185112.0c4db978@celine> References: <002401c51c19$11dccb90$0db3fea9@kath.state.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <002401c51c19$11dccb90$0db3fea9@kath.state.gov> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 09:16 PM 2/26/2005 +0545, bj wrote: >Hi ! > >I have a Red Hat 8.0 on a intel 2.4 machine with 512 MB . > >I have kernel 2.4.20-30.8-legacy & 2.4.20-30.8-legacy bigmem. > >I used to have all my directories /var , /tmp , /usr , /home under one >partition / . > >Thanks to everybody , now I was able to re-partition my drive into extended >drives (drives < 4) and move my /var , /tmp into hda5 & ,my /usr , /home >into /hda6 . For future reference, it is a lot easier to associate partitions with a single top-level directory than with multiple ones, as you have chosen to to. For example, if I assign a partition to /home, I can just mount it there in fstab, without needing to use the symlink indirection you use: /dev/hda4 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 >Bu I am facing one problem. > >When I boot my system logger does not see the /var/log which has been moved >to the new location . > >The system just hangs . At what point does it "just" hang? What is the last message on screen? And how long do you wait ... are you sure it is a true hang and not a problem that times out after, say, 3 minutes? >When I boot in single mode by passing an argument to my kernel that does >show in the dmesg in the new location . > >In addtion when I run a command like 'clear ' it shows that it could not >find the library to run it . Where does your system have libncurses.so.5 (the "missing" library)? On my systems,it is always in /lib, a hard place to lose. >I have mounted hda5 & hda6 in my fstab . > >I did create soft link for my new var , new tmp & new usr to the the /var , >/tmp , /usr as ffs :- > >ln -s /mnt/hda5/var /var >ln -s /mnt/hda5/tmp /tmp > >ln -s /mnt/hda6/usr /usr This should all work fine, assuming the symlinks are created immediately after the partitiions are mounted during the init process. >I moved the old files using the ff commands:- > >cd source directory > >cp -ax * /mnt/usr5/var > >or > >cd /src/dir ; tar cf - . | (cd /dest/dir && tar xvf - ) > > > > >But still it does not work . > >Please find attached the dmesg & library error and fstab. I assume the dmesg example is from the single-user boot, not the one that "just hangs". So it doesn't tell us what is up with the hang. Next time, please also include the output of ... ls -l / df ... and if you are reporting the results of two different boot/init sequences (single user and multiuser) please be VERY VERY clear about which attempt each result goes with. >Please advice. > >Thank you for your help in advance. > >bj > > > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs