On Friday 07 October 2005 03:52, Matthias Langer wrote: > Joe Menola wrote: > >On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: > >>I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, > >>because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both > >>directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed > >>very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to > >>[with the boot-cd] > >> > >># mv /usr /mnt/newHD/ > >># mv /home /mnt/newHD/ > >># ln -s /mnt/newHD/usr usr > >># ln -s /mnt/newHD/home home > >> > >>However, I'm not sure if this is the suggested method of doing so and to > >>be honest, I'm not completley sure if this would even work. > >> > >>Any comments or suggestions ? > > > >In theory I suppose that would work. Myself, I would copy the contents > >to /mnt/newHD/ then rename the original directories and create the links. > > The renamed directories can be deleted after you've verified positive > > results. And if it all craps out, the originals can simply be renamed > > back to /usr and /home. > >You should consider creating separate partitions for these though. At some > >point you may wish to blow out the install but retain your /home. Separate > >partitions makes this much easier. And also opens the possibility of > > sharing your /home with multiple installs. > > > >HTH -jm > > Well, maybe you are right and creating a /usr and a /home partition is > the better choice. As I want to buy a 250GB drive, I'm thinking of 20G > for /usr and 230GB for home, while still 16GB remain for /opt, /root, > /bin .... . > Now another genooist pointed out that it would be wiser to use rsync or > tar instead of just > # cp - r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ > So, should I enter > # rsync -r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ > or are there some options I should activate to make sure I get what I want > ?
if you want to use copy, I would prefer cp -a ;) hm, go to the suse site - they have a step-by-step example to move whole directory-trees from one partition to another.. or had it some yoears ago. They used tar, for some reasons they mentioned and I forgot ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
