On Saturday 05 February 2005 02:01 pm, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger > > one
For future systems, you might check out LVM/EVMS. Either would allow you to add a new disk to the available storage space, transparently migrate data off the old disk, and then remove the old disk from available storage space. If both the new and old disk are hot-swappable, there's 0 downtime. I use LVM on everything; including my laptop. [It was really handy when I was testing out mm-sources and reiser4.] > copy the contents of /usr to /newusr, makng sure to preserve ownership > and permissions and symlinks cp -vga /usr/* /usr/.[^.]* /newusr Also, I'd do all of this in single-user mode, so that /usr doesn't get written to after the copy but before the new /usr is up. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- [email protected] mailing list
