Installation :: Which File Stops A Red Hat (or Fedora) From Moving To Another Partition
May 1, 2010
I have an obsession of packing a large number of distros into one hard disk. Many distro installers do not like it even though their kernels can support higher number partitions. Typically an installer, say from a Debian family, would freeze when checking a hard disk that has more than 15 partitions. However if I put the same distro on a hard disk with less than 16 partition the installer will be very happy to install. I then copy the distro back to the original disk to a different partition, change the boot loader setting and fstab and the new distro will be happily working in the next hard disk that has 57 partitions.
This scheme works for any distro until recently Fedora refuses the move. I didn't investigate the cause then but I have just come up against a brick wall with the Red Hat Enterrise Linux 6. It was one out of the 4 I just moved. The others are operating happily. The RHEL will boot to a Grub screen. When I select the user account and type in the password it just refreshes the screen as though the password could not be accepted. I can boot up another Linux, mount the RHEL partition, change root to it and change my normal user password. Better still why don't I create a new user and another password.
Same result. I could not pass the log in screen with revised password or from a new account which got displayed. How about a little trick told by Justlinux library file --> to alter the run level. So I mounted the RHEL partition, changed root to it, edited the /etc/inittab and amended the run level from 5 (for X desktop) to 1 (single user - terminal mode). RHEL now boots to a root terminal! Success in a sense that my RHEL boots as expected and there was never a problem with booting. However newer Linux do not permit root log on to the desktop so I cannot check the log in with the ordinary user account to X. After I fiddled with the various files/parameters related to the gdm and X still no joy so I cut my loss and post the question here.
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Apr 23, 2009
Trying to dual-boot OpenSolaris and FC10 is difficult because Solaris grub doesn't know about ext3 and Fedora grub doesn't know about ZFS. I was able to rescue my FC10 installation by creating a new FAT16 partition and restoring /boot to it from a dump, and then doing a grub setup to it. A complication is that anaconda doesn't seem to be able to find /dev/md0 (both the Solaris and FC10 installs use mirrored disks).
This process moved the FC10 ext3 partition from /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda4, but the other half of the mirror is still /dev/sdb3.
When I boot FC10 I get a "can't load image" error from grub, but it still loads FC10 successfully. It makes no difference if menu.1st/grub.conf has "root (hd0,1)" (the FAT16 partition) or "root (hd0,3)" (the FC10 ext3 partition).
If a future yum update were to try to install a new kernel, my FAT16 partition would not be updated. It seems to me both these problems might be solved if I could move /boot from /dev/md0 to /dev/sda2 (/dev/sda2 is the FAT16 partition).
Rather than go through yet another install, would the following work?
from FC10, move /boot to (say) /boot.0
mkdir /boot
edit fstab to include "mount /dev/sda2 /boot"
If I try this and it doesn't work, I can't see any way to undo it since anaconda doesn't seem to be able to mount /dev/md0. If a grub guru sees this, perhaps they could suggest a better alternative, or if not, whether this will work or not.
Additionally, although there are two alternatives in menu.1st/grub.conf, grub doesn't display a menu - it goes directly to boot. Any idea why? I suppose this might be a Solaris stage1 grub problem...
Since FAT16 doesn't support links, it isn't possible to link grub.conf to menu.1st. Are they both required?
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Apr 12, 2011
I have the strange problem that my sound and video stops sometimes when I'm not moving the mouse. As long as I keep moving the mouse there is no problem.
I am using
- Fedora 14
- 2 Sound cards (Internal Audio and Audio device on my Radeon HD 3600 video card, however this sound is not working)
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Dec 9, 2010
I work with ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on a hp pavilion 2713ca laptop. Everything is fine presently, except for the fact that I will be soon out of space on the actual sda6 partition (only 2 gig left).
I would like to move the ubuntu partition with all its content to a second one where there is a lot of space, that is sda2. So my question would be twofold.
1) What software can I use to do that (gparted, clonezilla, ... ) and is someone is familiar with the procedure?
2) Will there be an easy way to change the grub.cfg file? (for example, will the command grub update be enough to boot to new setup)
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Jul 31, 2011
I'm running Fedora 14 as a KVM guest on a CentOS host. I decided to give preupgrade-cli a shot to get Fedora 15.
After reboot, I got a not enough free space error, so I decided to add another virtual drive and move /usr to it.
The partition on the new drive is ext4 formatted (just like my / partition)
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Then I mounted the new partition on /newusr, and copied the files using cp and rsync
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I also tried rsync without the HAX options, same results.
I then changed my /etc/fstab to reflect the new /usr
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Then I reboot and watch the booting process, it fails first at loading NetworkManager, then elsewhere, and system stops. Of course I could revert back using a live CD and try all the other options, but nothing works for me.
There is an error in /var/log/boot.log, but I don't think it is related, as it shows when booting normally as well.
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Jul 30, 2010
I've tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 last year but my modem was malfunctioning, so i gave up on Ubuntu, but i got a new modem and installed Ubuntu using wubi, i loved it and ill make it my main OS, but now i have 2 problems:
1.-I tried using lvpm, but i ended up with a 60 GB new.disk and my hard drive has just 30 Gb (30 gb wubi installation and the 60gb from the new.disk)
2.-i dont know how to shrink windows partition and i dont want to loose my config, tweaks and installed apps my hard drive has 230 gb capacity and i want to leave at least 100 gb to windows
I decided to uninstal wubi and im going to install ubuntu the right way.. it just seems easier..
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Jul 27, 2010
I have on sda1 Windows 7 installed. On sda2 I have 3 sub partitions (extended partition) with Ubuntu 10.04 and a swap space and one partition for /usr/local. Now I tried to move space from sda2 to sda1 using gparted. It's not possible. I deallocated space from sda2 which works. But I cannot merge it with sda2. Is that, because sda2 is an extended partition? Is there a work around without killing all partitions and lose my complete data?
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Oct 31, 2010
I've installed Windows 7 + XP + Ubuntu 10.10 and Mac Os X on my PC. The problem is that XP wont boot. I've tried a lot of fixes for the last 2 days but still nothing. So I've come to conclusion that it might be probably due to its partition (dev/sda being inside of another Extended partition (dev/sda3) as you guys can see on the attachment. If so, how can I move it out of the extended partition.
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Sep 11, 2010
I boot up Ubuntu 10.04 just fine. The mouse works, but after about 2 seconds or so, it stops moving. Of course, the keyboard keeps working fine. It's like Ubuntu stops getting the signals that the mouse is moving. The mouse is in fine working condition. It works fine on my Windows partition. The mouse just had fresh batteries installed, and the laser light doesn't turn off.
I did just remove an ATI card and go back to my GeForce 8200 onboard graphics card. So I thought it might be a wierd driver problem, so I managed to remove the NVIDIA drivers. Didn't help at all. I also was able to log into a console and update the OS. No help there either. I did try to boot my 10.04 live cd, but my computer hates live cd's for some reason. It wouldn't boot, and I can't remember what I did to make it work when I installed Ubuntu.
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May 26, 2010
I installed Fedora 13 to sdb7 and installed Grub to root all went well on install. But when I reboot it stops at Loading Partition.
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Mar 25, 2011
I moved my /var partition using Gparted Live CD version 0.8.0-3. Everything went fine. But when I boot my Fedora 14, I get error message (something like "name_count maxed, losing inode data"). Maybe there are other error messages as well, but they scroll away very quickly. Is there any way to slow them down?
But the boot hangs after starting udev and setting host name to localhost.localdomain. It just hangs there. If I press the [Caps Lock] key, it toggles the Caps Lock LED. If I boot the installation DVD in Rescue mode, it mounts all partitions without problems, and the data is there.
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Jan 1, 2010
Currently, my disk layout is: 20GB(windows-ntfs) / 250GB data-ext4 / 20GB ubuntu-ext4 / 4gb swap
Since I no longer use windows, I want to move ubuntu to the first place.
What do I need to change in configuration files, grub and anywhere else?
Shoudl I keep swap where it is or move it, too?
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Oct 28, 2010
So when I try to move the home directory to another point, the sound stops working magically. Well actually the sound still works, but the controls don't work. Here is what I am trying to do.
My home directory is currently at /home/user I want it in another independent partition so I copy all the contents from /home/user to /dev/sda5 and then I mount /dev/sda5 to /home/user with rw permissions. Everything works perfectly, even my mozilla profile is copied and such, but the sound somehow disappears. When I comment out the line from fstab that mounts the the filesystem at /home/user, naturally things go back to normal because my folder at /home/user that was earlier becomes my home again. Things are working again. I can go back and forth, doesn't help.
Here are the specs, though they are irrelevant as everything including the sound works as long as I don't try to change my home dir. I'm using a Thinkpad T410. The destination filesystem btw is ntfs for my home directory, I know it's not suggested and most of you here will feel like lecturing me on how i shouldn't be using ntfs, but the point is I want to have my "Desktop" "Documents" "Pictures" "Videos" "Downloads" and everything in the same place for both windows and linux. So if moving the home directory to NTFS is strongly unadvisable, let me know how to move each of these folders to a desirable location. Here's what lspci has to say about audio device.
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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
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May 5, 2011
I have Windows 7 on my laptop and am attempting to install Ubuntu 11.04 from CD.I boot from the disk drive, follow the prompts and eventually get to the screen where I can set how much space I want to give to the Ubuntu partition vs the Windows partition. My hard disk is 250GB, so I reduce the Windows one to 100GB (currently has 80GB of files on it) and set the Ubuntu one to 130GB (the other 20GB is split between the two hidden Windows 7 partitions).
I then click to continue and the progress bar for the install starts up but doesn't move, it just sits at 0%. I realised that the dialogue box underneath the progress bar can still be expanded and asks me to test using -n and -s, but when I type either of these into the box and hit return, nothing happens. I have checked my download of the .iso I used using WinMD5Sum and the hash matches up. I have already tried installing from USB but this threw an error, hence using CD. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1546 running Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit Processor: AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-75 2.20GHz
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Apr 28, 2011
I had need of putting a file in one of the directories of the $PATH.The echo $PATH is/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/Majara/binI did in the terminal:mv file /home/Majara/binI have learned now that /home/Majara/bin isot a directory, but the file is not anywhere
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Feb 11, 2010
I had Lenny installed on my Acer Aspire laptop however I've had to try to reinstall it.The installation stops at 'Retrieving file 811 of 811' from the ftp server and thats it.I've tried a few times with the same result and I have done many installs without any issue except for this time.
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Sep 13, 2009
I have installed fedora 11, now i want to install touch driver for my dell 15 laptop. when i m moving cursur its moving but when i m clcking on touch pad to open anything its not opening, to open i have 2 select any file then i have to click touchpad keys.
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Nov 25, 2009
What file system should I use to partition a slow and old hard drive? I know that ext2 was best for old computers which mine is not but I am using an old hard drive for extra storage and I was curious if anyone knew if using ext2 or ext4 would show any performance differences.
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Aug 30, 2010
Sorry title should have been F13 installation without internet I am having a P4, 1GB ram, 80 GB machine. Since yesterday I am having some funny issues on this machine. i have fedora 12 installed on this machine.
My mouse suddenly stop working, or the cursor changes from pointer type to a line cursor and basicaly the mouse just stops clicking. I am plannning to install fedora 13 on this machine. Have downloaded the 5 iso (
CD images).
Would choosing the option upgrade on existing Linux partition do the job? Is there a chance I loose my data files when the upgrade is done? I dont want to reinstall programs like java, eclipse, tomcat etc that I done in fedora 12. I only intend using the CD's as I dont have a lot of bandwidth and a fast internet connection to use yum.
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Oct 1, 2010
Part way through the installation of Fedora 13 the installation stops with 510 square blocks displayed. The blocks are arranged in a 17 by 30 pattern and have two different colors. This happens with 3 different versions of Fedora 13. The 32 bit live CD version, the 32 bit version and the 64 bit version. I am able to start a live CD version of Fedora 10 but not the live CD version of Fedora 13 on this computer. The computer has an Asus P6X58D Premium mother board, an Intel i7-950 CPU and an EVGA GeForce GT 240 display.
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Oct 28, 2009
I have Fedora running on my computer at school and have been informed we are getting new computers.
Can I simply move my hard drive to the new computers? I don't have to reinstall do I? Would I have to use a new kernel?
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Feb 12, 2010
I just installed Fedora12 32bit and I have no sound. I've tried reinstalling and updating PulseAudio, but I don't know if it's just my settings or my drivers or what. (And no, it's not muted).
O/S information:
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[Darksun@darksun ~]$ uname -a
Linux darksun 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:41:45 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Hardware Information:
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[Darksun@darksun ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1) .....
Aside from not having sound, my players are acting funny. If I go to load, say, an MP3 into XMMS, it only attempts to play a song for 1 second and then stops. (no sound comes out, but I can see the equalizer moving for a second like its' trying).
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May 18, 2011
I'm running Debian Wheezy on a Dell XPS M1530 laptop, 64-bit.
I'm having a boot problem after moving my /usr directory out of the root partition and into its own partition.
I followed the "easy way" here: [url]
Basically, I moved the contents of /usr to a new partition -- renamed /usr in root to /oldusr -- and edited fstab and tried to reboot... but the boot process wasn't able to find the new /usr.
After using /dev/sda7 in fstab (to no success) I ran blkid to find the UUID and used that (again, to no success).
My fstab is below:
For what it's worth, grub is also looking different -- none of the debian backgrounds that were there previously remain. While it lists the same kernels to boot into the boot (as described above) fails.
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Jan 1, 2010
I installed openSUSE 11.2 on an external HDD to test. I think it's brilliant, and want to move it to an internal HDD. What is the best way to do this? I don't want to lose all the programs / tweaks I've made to SUSE so far.
Coming from the Windows' world, it's as easy as taking an image of a partition and restoring it over a new HDD partition.
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Apr 23, 2010
I know there is a lot of tutorials about this but I`m kind a new in Ubuntu and Linux. I know that it is good to set different partition for /home. But when I installed my ubuntu 9.10 I made 4 partitions
swap
/boot
/ - 40GB
/usr - 200GB
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Jun 17, 2010
right now i m using ubuntu 10.04 installed on virtual hard disk (wubi), but now i want to move it to dedicated hard drive partition. i found is to use LVPM however that software is NOT compatible with ubuntu 10.04. . .
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Apr 4, 2011
I have a laptop with a large harddrive. Originally I had the sda1 which was a dell recovery partition, sda2 which is my Win7 partition. I created a new primary partition to try out ubuntu. Falling in love with the OS, I wished to grow the partition but I already had 4 primary partitions.
I deleted my swap partition and converted that to an extended partition, I then grew it to a 100gb extended partition. I created 2 new primary partitions, one for swap and one for the OS..
So my drives are as follows:
This is what I have done thus far:
1. Booted to live CD
2. Mounted /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda6
3. cp -afvR /oldOSPartition /newOSPartition
4. In the NEW OS partition, I updated /etc/fstab to reflect the UUID's of the new disks.
5. I updated /etc/mtools.conf and /etc/mtab as well.
6. I rebooted to old OS partition and ran update-grub && update-grub2
7. I can see the new entries in the grub boot menu
8. I select the kernel entry for /dev/sda6 (NEW OS), it boots, but when I hit the desktop, I open an terminal and do a "mount" and I am somehow still mounted/booted to sda4 (old OS).
From here, I re-mounted /dev/sda6 to a temporary mount point and did a "cd /; grep -r 'sda4' * > /matches.txt"
I also searched for the UUID and I found no matches so I don't know why it reverted to sda4.
Even if I boot to the recovery console entry for /dev/sda6 in the grub menu, same thing, it keeps mounting sda4.
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Jun 12, 2011
i am going to be upgrading to a ssd and would like to move /var and /tmp to a separate partition (it can be separate but preferably the same) how would i extract /var and /tmp to a different partition (need fstab lines and permission settings) when i get another stick of ram i will make /tmp into a ram disk here is my partition layout
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Dec 7, 2010
Lets say I have /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 which is a 5.8 GB ext3 partition that resides on a 10GB drive. This is just a logical volume partition, one of a few... this being the one that isn't swap, the main data.
I have a 20GB drive... I want to move the LogVol00 to it, and it is /dev/sdb. I partition /dev/sdb1 to be 8192 MiB in size in gParted.
I move as such:
dd if=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 of=/dev/sdb1
The operation finishes with no problems.
Fsck reports clean... so... I run:
fsck -l /dev/sdb1
A few small errors pop up and they get fixed.
My free space remaining, as expected, is 5.8 GB.
I go into gParted and resize the partition to 15GB in size, still working on the 20GB drive.
It does so, the operation completes.
I have what I want: the partition was taken out of LVM, data was retained, I have no issues resizing it. Additionally I tried writing random junk to this new filesystem to test to see if it's broken, and also deleted 3gb of files already on it with no problems.
I just want someone to look this over and tell me if they see any problems with what I've done. I've tested this twice so far with success each time. Is there a better or easier way to do this? I do not want to keep LVM for various reasons. By the way, you might be wondering why I made the partition 8GB for an almost 6GB system. Because the first time I did it, I put down a number that was too exact and it didn't work. Overestimating to 2GB fixed the issue - I'm guessing this is probably due to block size.
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Apr 26, 2010
I have 2 harddisks, and a very new SuSE 10 installation.
Suppose I have a user called test in the users group. At present its home directory is /home/test. This is on one of the harddisks, sda.
Now I have a partition on the other harddisk /other. I would like all my users to be on sdb, so that their home directories are /other/users/test for instance for the test user.
I have played around with YaST to create another user "toets" in /other/gebruikers, but I would like to have it as /other/users/toets.
I want all the user accounts on /other.
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