Your dmesg shows disk errors: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Check that the cables are connected well. Maybe disabling dma would help (man hdparm, /etc/sysconfig/harddisks), though it would slow down your I/O. Steven Yellin On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, bj wrote: > Hi ! > > I have a Red Hat 8.0 on a intel 2.4 machine with 512 MB . > > I have kernel 2.4.20-30.8-legacy & 2.4.20-30.8-legacy bigmem. > > I used to have all my directories /var , /tmp , /usr , /home under one > partition / . > > Thanks to everybody , now I was able to re-partition my drive into extended > drives (drives < 4) and move my /var , /tmp into hda5 & ,my /usr , /home > into /hda6 . > > > Bu I am facing one problem. > > When I boot my system logger does not see the /var/log which has been moved > to the new location . > > The system just hangs . > > When I boot in single mode by passing an argument to my kernel that does > show in the dmesg in the new location . > > In addtion when I run a command like 'clear ' it shows that it could not > find the library to run it . > > > I have mounted hda5 & hda6 in my fstab . > > I did create soft link for my new var , new tmp & new usr to the the /var , > /tmp , /usr as ffs :- > > ln -s /mnt/hda5/var /var > ln -s /mnt/hda5/tmp /tmp > > ln -s /mnt/hda6/usr /usr > > I moved the old files using the ff commands:- > > cd source directory > > cp -ax * /mnt/usr5/var > > or > > cd /src/dir ; tar cf - . | (cd /dest/dir && tar xvf - ) > > > > > But still it does not work . > > Please find attached the dmesg & library error and fstab. > > Please advice. > > Thank you for your help in advance. > > bj > > > > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list