Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Alex Daniloff <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Linux folkz,

Due to my old HD (8 years) random failures I have to transfer all my Linux
partitions on a new one.
I created three partitions on a new HD: swap, /boot (ext2) and / (reiserfs)
I mounted new HD on the old one under corresponding /mnt/new and /mnt/new/boot
directories and copied all respective directories from my old HD on the new
HD.
In /fstab I entered:

/dev/hde1   swap          swap      defaults  0  0 
/dev/hde2   /mnt/new/boot ext2      defaults  1  1
/dev/hde3   /mnt/new      reiserfs  defaults  0  0   

First question:
After reboot my /mnt/new/boot partition has disappeared with all its content.
I can mount /mnt/new/ and /mnt/new/boot separately one after another but why
they are not mounted properly upon boot up? Why /mnt/new/ supersedes
/mnt/new/boot/ ?

Second question:
If I remove my old faulty HD how I can start using the new one?
Can I just change a boot specifying line in /etc/lilo.conf to boot /dev/hde3,
remove lines about old HD and modify lines about new HD in /etc/fstab? 

/dev/hde1   swap   swap      defaults  0  0 
/dev/hde2   /boot  ext2      defaults  1  1
/dev/hde3   /      reiserfs  defaults  0  0   

Will it work or not?
I don't want to screw up my whole Linux installation
Thank you in advance for any ideas.
Alex















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