RE: [Sheflug] Re: Partitioning

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>Thanks all,
>
>I'm beginning to get a much clearer picture now. Just one more question - if
>you add another drive and want to move ,say the /usr/local onto the new
>drive, how do you persuade linux not to continue looking for it on the
>original drive? Is it sufficient to simply copy any contents across to the
>new drive and delete the old /usr/local in some way - would you use
>something like disk druid for that?

 Basic plan:

 Connect up new drive, power up.

 Partition + format the new drive (fdisk, mk2fs)
 mount the new drive on /mnt/temp (for example), copy /usr/local to /mnt/temp
(check man cp - use the options to keep permissions+access times, and copy
recursively (-r)).

 Check that the copy is OK, then delete everything below /usr/local, but keep
the /usr/local directory (as a mount point, just as you have /mnt/cdrom).
 Umount /mnt/temp, and remount it on /usr/local.
 Viola!

 Baz.

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