[Sheflug] Adding extra disks

["Dawson, Alan" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
I would like to add an extra disk to a linux box, so I can mount /usr on the
new drive.

I guess I
1. Add new drive (say primary ide slave)
2. boot
3. fdisk /dev/hdb
4. mount /dev/hdb /mnt
5. copy contents of /usr to /mnt
6. edit fstab
7. rm -fr /usr
8. umount /mnt
8. mount -a

at step 5 I guess if i use cp -R /usr /mnt it will copy symbolic links as
hard links (or something) so what I want to do is cp -dR /usr /mnt or even
cp -dpR /usr/mnt  (I'm not really sure about the p and d flags).

Is this the correct procedure ..?

ALan Dawson
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