From: Steve S. <sn...@fr...> - 2003-01-03 18:18:19
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:51:12PM +0000, Vincent AE Scott wrote: > Robert Story(rst...@re...)@Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:25:46AM -0500: > > I moved my rootfs and cow filesystems to another fs with more free space. When > > I try and start uml, it complains it can't find the rootfs at the old path. I'm > > assuming the rootfs path is stuffed into the cowfs. Is there a utility to > > update it? > > uml_moo to the rescue: > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5 I'm afraid that is not what Robert wants. He doesn't want to wipe out the advantages of the COW, he just wants to move the backing file. And AFAIK there isn't any utility that does this. I think it's a security feature as stated in the warning : http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4 Steve -- GPG public key available from http://snide.free.fr/gpg/snide-free.fr.asc Or by email to "snide at free.fr" with "send key pub" as subject Fingerprint: 91E3 C5F1 2641 4D0F EDD0 7116 D187 5929 14A8 FDA2 |