Re: [gNewSense-users] Mounting/partitioning inside a VM

[Kim Hawtin]

On 13/04/12 10:27, Stayvoid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got the following errors (I've already moved /var line upper (right
> after /home)):
>
> Mounting local filesystems...mount: mount point /var/tmp does not exist
> mount: mount point /var/mail does not exist
> failed.
> [...]
> /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh: 63: cannot create /var/run/utmp: Directory nonexistent
> [...]
> startpar: service(s) returned failure: bootmisc.sh ... failed!
> [...]
> /etc/init.d/bootlogs: 74: cannot create /var/run/motd: Directory nonexistent
> /etc/init.d/bootlogs: 74: cannot create /var/run/motd: Directory nonexistent
> /etc/init.d/bootlogs: 74: cannot create /var/log/dmesg: Directory nonexistent
> chgrp: cannot access `/var/log/dmesg': No such file or directory
> Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogdCan't open or create /var/run/rsyslogd.pid
> Can't write pid
>   already started.
> Could not create file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: No such file or directory
>
> Starting periodic command scheduler: cron/var/spool/cron: No such file
> or directory
> /var/spool/cron: mkdir: No such file or directory
>   failed!
> [...]

when you mount a new file system to replace /var you will need to 
pre-populate the contents across.

I usually mount a new file system on /mnt and then use rsync;

  mount -t ext3 /dev/XXXXX /mnt
  rsync -av /var/ /mnt/

the '/'s on the end of the paths are important!

then you can;

  umount /mnt
  mount -t ext3 /dev/XXXXX /var

regards,

Kim