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echo: rberrypi
to: DRUCK
from: MIKE SCOTT
date: 2019-10-25 08:50:00
subject: Re: problem moving root t

On 25/10/2019 08:16, druck wrote:
> On 24/10/2019 16:28, Chris Elvidge wrote:
>> On 24/10/2019 15:43, Mike Scott wrote:
>>> But I don't like an all-in-one partition, so, I started over (on the
>>> dekstop box), and repartitioned for a fresh root, var, usr, and so
>>> on. I mounted the new root, and created mount points, and mounted
>>> those partitions. Then again used rsync -ax  ,
>>> edited the fstab in the new etc (using device names), and updated the
>>> SD card's cmdline.txt.
>>
>> I wish you'd explained that bit at the beginning.
>
> It's times like this that I wish usenet had the head slapping emoji.

See my comments to Chris. When practice varies across time & systems,
there are bound to be problems that pop up. The odd thing is, that in
all the web searches I did (before posting here), there wasn't a hint of
this issue. Hopefully that's now changed.


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Mike Scott
Harlow, England

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