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If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as |
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it always ends in tears ... |
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Using a liveCD, create your partitions and directories, then copy |
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everything over (rsync or tar is best to make sure its accurate), change |
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your fstab then reboot. When you are happy its working, you can recover |
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the old directories at leisure. |
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For the future: I found that since I stated using LVM, this sort of |
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exercise becomes a lot easier, safer and has less downtime. |
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BillK |
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On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 02:49 +0200, 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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