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On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> Joe Menola wrote: |
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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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> >> |
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> Now another genooist pointed out that it would be wiser to use rsync or |
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> tar instead of just |
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> # cp - r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ |
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> So, should I enter |
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> # rsync -r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ |
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> or are there some options I should activate to make sure I get what I want |
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> ? |
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> |
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> Thanks, Matthias |
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rsync -a will get all times and permissions, /etc. I would STRONGLY second |
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what the other guy said about lvm, though. If you buy a new hard drive, |
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don't just put filesystems and partitions on it, go the LVM route, make the |
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logical volumes small, and don't use the whole drive for lvs, you can grow |
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anything you want later. |
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