Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:20:51
Message-Id: 200903211920.43037.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition... by Alan McKinnon
1 Am Samstag, 21. März 2009 19:12:56 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
2
3 > > cp -a /mnt/gentoo/backup/var /mnt/gentoo/var
4 > > cp -a /mnt/gentoo/backup/usr /mnt/gentoo/usr
5 >
6 > Um, no. This gives you new usr and var directories like so:
7 >
8 > /usr/usr/
9 > /var/var
10 >
11 > You want:
12 >
13 > cp -a /mnt/gentoo/backup/var /mnt/gentoo/
14 > cp -a /mnt/gentoo/backup/usr /mnt/gentoo/
15
16 Oh, you're right on that, I just wrote "Yes" ;-)
17
18 > > Is it a correct procedure? All partitions are ext3 type, no lvm2,
19 > > moreover on /dev/md so I can not extend/shrink them while using...
20 >
21 > It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to manipulate
22 > traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a breeze. With ZFS (we
23 > might see it one day) this becomes invisible.
24
25 btrfs will be there in .29 (maybe not stable yet, but it looks promising).
26
27 Bye...
28
29 Dirk

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