From: unruh@invalid.ca
On 2013-02-07, grimble wrote:
> On 06/02/13 22:37, Aragorn wrote:
> ...
>> I would suggest the following... First, drop down to single-user
>> maintenance mode, i.e. runlevel 1 [*]. At this point, you are the root
>> user - you may need to supply the root password, depending on the
>> security level settings for your local system.
>>
>> A trick I've picked up from "The Definitive Guide To Mandrake Linux 9.2"
>> is to use the following command, provided that the new filesystem is
>> mounted where you say it is. ;-)
>>
>> (cd /usr && tar cf - .) | (cd /newusr && tar xpvf -)
> Thanks for your reply, Aragorn. After investigating a few systemctl
> isolate and start commands, I started the tar process in single user mode.
>
> A fairly disasterous outcome, I'm sorry to say. The tar process started
> to throw "insufficient space" and "can't perform mkdir" messages. I
It sounds to me like you forgot to mount the new partition on /newusr
and were filling up your / directory. Which is a disaster. And since you
did it as root, you filled everything up totally and completely leaving
no room for even root to log in. Youwill need a live CD. I think you
will discover that /newusr on the old / directory is full.
> can't find any reference to tar using temporary files, and in single
> user mode, I couldn't see any obvious temp files.
It should not. It is a pipe. The data that goes inone end should be
extracted from the other by the other tar.
> I deleted a few MBs from /tmp and restarted; now I get to the graphical
> login screen but my password isn't recognised (nor can I log in as
Log in as single usr, NOT in graphical login.
On lilo it is
linux 1
at the boot prompt ( hit esc when it asks what you want to boot to)
On grub I do not know.
> postgres, which has no password). So I'm about to boot from a Live Disk
> to see what I can see.
>
>
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