Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

[Matthias Langer]

Joe Menola wrote:

>On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote:
>
>
>>I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition,
>>because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both
>>directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed
>>very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to
>>[with the boot-cd]
>>
>># mv /usr /mnt/newHD/
>># mv /home /mnt/newHD/
>># ln -s /mnt/newHD/usr usr
>># ln -s /mnt/newHD/home home
>>
>>However, I'm not sure if this is the suggested method of doing so and to
>>be honest, I'm not completley sure if this would even work.
>>
>>Any comments or suggestions ?
>>
>>
>
>In theory I suppose that would work. Myself, I would copy the contents
>to /mnt/newHD/ then rename the original directories and create the links. The
>renamed directories can be deleted after you've verified positive results.
>And if it all craps out, the originals can simply be renamed back to /usr
>and /home.
>You should consider creating separate partitions for these though. At some
>point you may wish to blow out the install but retain your /home. Separate
>partitions makes this much easier. And also opens the possibility of sharing
>your /home with multiple installs.
>
>HTH -jm
>
>
Well, maybe you are right and creating a /usr and a /home partition is 
the better choice. As I want to buy a 250GB drive, I'm thinking of 20G 
for /usr and 230GB for home, while still 16GB remain for /opt, /root, 
/bin .... .
Now another genooist pointed out that  it would be wiser to use rsync or 
tar instead of just
# cp - r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/
So, should I enter
# rsync -r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/
or are there some options I should activate to make sure I get what I want ?

Thanks, Matthias
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