why take a chance your links or dot files will be missed with a mv or cp
when tar gets it all and preserves everything 100% with one command
? just curious.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:21:41 -0500
> From: Sheldon Lee Wen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you should be able to do this:
>
> 1. Make the new partition of sufficient size. /dev/hd? whatever,
> 2. init 1
> 3. mount /dev/hd? /mnt
> 4. mv /usr /mnt (I'm not 100% sure this will preserve softlinks)
> 5. umount /mnt
> 6. umount /usr
> 7. mount /dev/hd? /usr
> 8. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the change.
> 9. init ?
>
> ? stands for whatever is appropriate.
> no reboot.
>
> ===========================================================
> "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
> violence are the result of jons world domination laser "
> - Jonisattva
>
> For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout:
> http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
> ===========================================================
>
>
