Problems with mounting /usr/share

[John Summerfield]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I am having a bit of a problem with getting a normal boot up
> sequence when trying to split out /usr/share into a different
> partition due to my /usr space running out of room.
> 
> Here is what I did:
> 
> /dev/sda1 = /boot
> /dev/sda2 = /
> /dev/sda3 = swap
> /dev/sdb1 = /share (new)
> /dev/sdb2 = /app1
> /dev/sdb3 = /app2
> 
> 1: mkdir /usr2
> 2: cd /usr2
> 3: tar-copied /usr into /usr2 (excepting /usr/share)
> 4: restorecon -R .
> 5: e2label /dev/sdb1 /share
> 6: updated /etc/fstab:
> 
>    LABEL=/       /          ext3     defaults       1 1
>    LABEL=/boot   /boot      ext3     defaults       1 2
>    LABEL=/share  /share     ext3     defaults       1 2
>    LABEL=/app1   /app1      ext3     defaults       1 2
>    LABEL=/app2   /app2      ext3     defaults       1 2
>    LABEL=swap    swap       swap     defaults       0 0
>    tmpfs         /dev/shm   tmpfs    defaults       0 0 
>    devpts        /dev/pts   devpts   gid=5;mode=620 0 0
>    sysfs         /sys       sysfs    defaults       0 0
>    proc          /proc      proc     defaults       0 0
> 
> 7: reboot in rescue CD
> 8: mount /dev/sda2(/) /mnt
> 9: cd /usr
> 10: mv share share-old
> 11: ln -s ../share/share share
> 12: umount /mnt; reboot and remove rescue CD
> 
> When rebooted I see:
> 1: normal bios stuff
> 2: udev
> 3: fsck file checks
> 4: <do not see the gui screen showing services being loaded>
> 5: Immediately see the GDM greeter (Login screen)
> 6: Login as normal user and my services and network is disabled.
> 
> I checked /usr/share and it is correctly symlinked to /share/share
> 
> Do I have the fstab order right i.e. should I put the
> /share ahead of /boot or does it matter?
> 
> Any advice?
mount /dev/sdb1 on /usr/share after /usr is mounted. Stuff the symlink.

You shouldn't need to use the rescue disk for this. You might need to do 
selinux stuff, it's outside my experience.




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