Stephan A Suerken wrote: > > Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt > > it supports the ext2 filesystem. > > With GNU cp, copying whole partitions is ok via "cp -a", so tar > is not needed (if one can mount both partitions simultaneously). > > There is also a mini HOWTO to this subject called > > /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.* > ...snip
There is also information about moving a tree in Linux Gazette #22 in the answer guy column, it explains how to move your /usr tree without a problem. Rather than booting from a floppy and then changing things it is easiest just to edit fstab to switch mount points for the old and new trees of which ever directory tree /usr, /home etc. that you are moving. I have done it twice now and it worked beautifully. I did not move the root of the filesystem though, that's still on the original drive. There is a truth to the statement that programs and data will expand to fill any and all available disk space :-) Colin Johnson -- ---------------------------- Colin Johnson. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interlog.com/~cjohnson Remember, Everything you see on screen is but ones and zeros.
