[Mageia-dev] UsrMove failure

Johnny A. Solbu cooker at solbu.net
Tue Aug 14 17:40:06 CEST 2012


On Tuesday 14 August 2012 17:10, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Just so I can pick the right VM, what's your disk layout? ext3/4? 


df -T|grep -v fs
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1      ext4       12G  6,4G  4,9G  57% /
/dev/sda6      ext4      9,5G  8,7G  769M  93% /home

> /usr on a separate partition or not?

Only on real systems. I don't bother with separate /usr on virtual machines, such as Cauldron and Cooker.

> (/me is now wondering if the "rw" command line option is enough to mount
> / rw... perhaps that's what changed - even still you should have gotten
> an error message about it after the first exit with rd.break...)

I tried it again, to se what errors show up. They just might tell you more than they tell me. ;-)=
(Typed in here manually, beware of typos)
===
pre-pivot:/# (Pressing CTRL+D)
[   91.3330211} dracut: /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2
pre-pivot

[   91.3330211] dracut Warning: Break before switch_root
dracut Warning: Break before switch_root

Dropping to debug shell.

/bin/sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off
switch_root:/#
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Johnny A. Solbu
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