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On Friday 07 October 2005 03:52, 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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> >># 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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> >> |
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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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> >> |
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> >>Any comments or suggestions ? |
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> > |
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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. |
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> > The renamed directories can be deleted after you've verified positive |
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> > results. And if it all craps out, the originals can simply be renamed |
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> > back to /usr 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 |
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> > sharing your /home with multiple installs. |
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> > |
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> >HTH -jm |
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> |
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> Well, maybe you are right and creating a /usr and a /home partition is |
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> the better choice. As I want to buy a 250GB drive, I'm thinking of 20G |
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> for /usr and 230GB for home, while still 16GB remain for /opt, /root, |
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> /bin .... . |
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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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if you want to use copy, I would prefer cp -a ;) |
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hm, go to the suse site - they have a step-by-step example to move whole |
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directory-trees from one partition to another.. or had it some yoears ago. |
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They used tar, for some reasons they mentioned and I forgot ;) |
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