Well, after dragging my feet long enough, I'm finally going to re-arrange my
box for playing with various 64 bit systems.
My current set-up is:
hda 10G
/ 1G hda1
/usr 5G hda3
/home 3.6G hda4
swap 526M hda2
hdb 13G
hdb1 2G old /usr
hdb2 786M old CD Image
hdb3 786M Same
hdb4 9G old /home
sda 160G SATA
Currently blank
So, you can see I've lots of room to play around with. The old /usr on hdb1 is
wipable, and I think I did wipe it earlier, but I'd like to keep the
old /home from hdb4, so I was thinking of copying the user directories under
the new /home so I still have access to them.
As you can see, I don't have a /boot partition, since I find that confusing
when editing my grub menu, I prefer to keep it within /
With 160G on sda, I've plenty of room to move around, and I've considered
playing with LVM, but I don't think I'm ready for that yet.
I think the best thing to do is, create some partitions on sda, move most
everything there and then re-arrange hda and hdb to something more logical.
I'd prefer to make / less that 700M so that it can be copied directly to a CD
for back-up purposes, so I think I need a /var partition to keep / from
growing too big.
My current desktop is 32bit LFS/BLFS on hda, but I think I'm going to go with
Gentoo for my regular 64bit desktop, but have several partitons to play with
various incarations of 64bit LFS/BLFS until people change to a /lib /lib32
scheme rather than /lib /lib64 that so many developers seem to favour.
Well, that's a lot of free association off my chest (-; now on to my question.
After a bit of googling, it seems the safest way to move things around is:
(cd /src/dir; tar cf - . ) | (cd /dest/dir tar xvfp - ), though it goes on the
say that GNU cp -av /src/dir /dest/dir is also safe. Does anyone have some
comments or suggestions regarding either command?
Also, does anyone have some suggestions regarding partitioning schemes for my
box? I'd like to avoid using extended partitions, where possible, but I don't
think I can avoid it on sda, considering how big it is.
Cheers, and thanks for listening to my ramblings.
John Gay
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