On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 11:03 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 19-08-16 09:25:36, Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12:06 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 09:58 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > > > Can you boot from live media? If so, you could just rename > > `/newvar` to > > > > `/var` and edit fstab. > > > I may have to do that as /var is too central to booting even in > > single- > > > user mode. > > > > I would try to add to the kernel params: init=/bin/bash > > then: "mount -o remount,rw /", rename the new directory to /var, > > "sync" and "reboot -f" > > > > It used to work. > > Or add to the kernel params "rd.break=pre-pivot". You'll still need the > remount. See `man dracut.cmdline`, from `man kernel-command-line`. > Booting continues if you exit the shell. OK, that seems to have worked (after remounting /sysroot, which is where the directories actually are at this point). Thanks to all who responded. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
