Trying to move /usr

[Michael S]

Jerry,

*** When I untarred the file I had everything under
/user/usr. I was under /user/usr and then I did mv *
..

I then edited fstab and changed 
/dev/da2s1d to be /usr, instead of /user

And of course the old /usr I switched to /user

Thanks in advance
--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:

> 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
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