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On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, |
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> because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both |
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> directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed |
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> very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to |
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> [with the boot-cd] |
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> # mv /usr /mnt/newHD/ |
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> # mv /home /mnt/newHD/ |
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> # ln -s /mnt/newHD/usr usr |
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> # ln -s /mnt/newHD/home home |
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> However, I'm not sure if this is the suggested method of doing so and to |
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> be honest, I'm not completley sure if this would even work. |
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> Any comments or suggestions ? |
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In theory I suppose that would work. Myself, I would copy the contents |
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to /mnt/newHD/ then rename the original directories and create the links. The |
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renamed directories can be deleted after you've verified positive results. |
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And if it all craps out, the originals can simply be renamed back to /usr |
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and /home. |
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You should consider creating separate partitions for these though. At some |
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point you may wish to blow out the install but retain your /home. Separate |
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partitions makes this much easier. And also opens the possibility of sharing |
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your /home with multiple installs. |
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HTH -jm |
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