Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:16:36 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trying to move /usr Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070820101558.0257ddc8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <748444.92682.qm@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <748444.92682.qm@web88301.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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At 10:10 AM 8/20/2007, 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.
>
>I then tarred up /usr
>Tar =ADcf /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=92t 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=92t mounting properly. I restarted the machine,
>this time going into single user mode. Trying to mount
>=ADa gave me an error message: Error mounting /usr/home.
>I then created home directory under the new /usr, I
>tried mount =ADa, this time it worked, but when I
>rebooted, I wasn=92t getting my home directory. When I
>login as an unprivileged user =AD michael, the message
>is something like: =93User has no home directory=94.
>
>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=92t provide the exact fstab or dmesg output.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Michael
When you un-tarred did you use -p to be sure the perms were all correct?
-Derek
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