On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 14:53, James Melin wrote: > I am preparing to copy my root file system to another volume. If memory > serves, the best tool for that is dd? So it doens't traverse the rest of > the mount points. That not withstanding what would people recommend to do > the following:
Uh, I wouldn't use dd unless you're doing it with identically-sized devices and identical partitions. dd is basically DDR. And using it on a mounted filesystem is asking for trouble. Instead, just use cp -ax to stay on the same filesystem. > move root to a new volume and then copy two other file systems, > specifically /var and /usr into the new copy of the root fs, effectively > combining root /var and /usr into the root fs space. So if your "new root" is mounted at /target, do: copy -ax / /target copy -ax /var /target copy -ax /usr /target > Secondly - if your sysprog dynacmicall adds a couple dasd devices to your > lpar environment that were not there, what is necesssary to make them > available to a running image? Is that possible or do I have to IPL? echo "add device range=<whatever>" >> /proc/dasd/devices should work. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
