On Wednesday 28 April 2004 13:10, Peter E. Abresch Jr.   - at Pepco wrote:
> I am running Linux SLES8 SP03 in a native LPAR. My root file system is
> running out of space. I was going to create a separate file system for
> directory /opt and move the data under this directory to the new file
> system. I have obtained a new DASD UCB address 2536 and here is what I
> plan to do.
>
> dasdfmt ?v ?n 2536 ?d cdl ?l LNX003 ?b 4096 ?p
>
> I was then going to define 2 equal partitions using:
>
> fdasd ?-verbose ?l LNX003 and follow the menu prompts
>
> Create 2 Reiser File systems using
> mkreiserfs /dev/dasdc1
> mkreiserfs /dev/dasdc2
>
> I was then going to create a temporary mount point and mount one of the
> new file systems.
> mount ?t reiserfs /dev/dasdc1 /tempmount
>
> Shutdown all users of directory /opt
> How can I identify users of /opt?
>
> Move all data from /opt to /tempmount
> Can someone provide a cp command that will do this with all
> subdirectories.

cp -pfr /opt /tempmount would do, but better would be:

# cd /opt
# tar cvf - . | ( cd /tempmount ; tar xvf - )

>
> Unmount new filesystem using
> umount /tempmount

=====>>> clean /opt,  don't  forget...

>
> mount the new filesystem on /opt using
> mount ?t reiserfs /dev/dasdc1 /opt
>
> Start my processes up again.
>
> Have can I insure that this new filesystem is automatically mounted at
> boot time? Can anyone provide pointers, opinions, or recommendations?
> Thanks.
>
> Peter
>

Florencio.

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