Hans, the traditional way of tackling multiple filesystems is to mount all those filesystems *before* installing. I suppose after-the-fact isn't impossible..
A few notes -- each filesystem will have a lost+found directory. cp probably won't do such a good job of moving everything. One common suggestion is: (cd /from/dir && tar cf - .) | (cd /to/dir && tar xvfp -) (I think Alan Cox suggested that for one of the tips-documents located in /usr/doc..) Recently, a fellow debian-user subscriber suggested a cpio command similar to that tar command -- cpio is better at handling devices than tar is -- but if you are only moving normal files, I am not sure it matters.. With the right mounts and umounts, you can probably have this finished before too long -- faster than reinstalling, probably. :) On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 03:36:29PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > I have one of those bright days and for the life of me can't think of how > to proceed. > > 1) I made the following partitioning. > /dev/hda5 50M (for /) > /dev/hda6 100M (for SWAP) > /dev/hda7 250M (for /var) > /dev/hda8 550M (for /usr) > /dev/hda9 550M (for /usr/local) > /dev/hda10 1500M (for /home) > 2) I installed the base on /dev/hda5 and I can boot with LILO from /dev/hda3. > 3) hda7-10 all have a ext2 file system. > > Now my thoughts were to first move the contents from /var to /dev/hda7, > then automount hda7 with an entry in /etc/fstab (/dev/hda7 /var > defaults,auto 0 0). > > So I first mount /dev/hda7 on /mnt, then issue "cp /var /mnt" but the only > thing that shows up on /mnt is lost+found. > > So forget about that then. I see a lot of people talking about sym-linking, > but from where to where? Do I put this sym-link in /, /var, or on > /dev/hda7? The content of /var still has to be moved to /dev/hda7 one way > or another. Where do I go wrong? Hope somebody can tell me where my mind > strays away from Unix-thinking. TIA > > Hans > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
