I suppose it depends on what applications you are running. I never took that into account! I would shut down all service that access /home ( http, mysql, etc) as part of the process, and yes, It's probably best to do it CLI, but then, that's just my preference.
tim On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:29:02 -0600, Chris Wallace wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 >God timmy, >That sounds almost absurdly simple ;-) >I take it that it would be better to do this from CLI than gui? >So, I take it that there wouldn't be any issue with 'open' files failing to >copy or other 'legacy' behaviour? ;-) >Thanks, >Chris >On August 6, 2003 10:03 pm, timmy wrote: >> Here's what I would do: >> >> format the new drive (ext2/3, whatever), and put it in your server. Mount >> it as /home2 or something like that. copy all of the files off the current >> /home onto the new drive. then, unmount /home and mount the new drive as >> /home. make sure to update /etc/fstab. >> >> hope that helps. >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) >iD8DBQE/MdWOAvR8j4tXQKERAlUuAJ4zarW0DtvqFxmlDI7RTfULa2yzowCeIlkB >YTWuhnYe+Dh1HdFB/42RVqY= >=XWg3 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
