Thanks! I'll be giving it a try and let you know how it flies. There may
be an added complication/ step as the empty partition is mounted at /home
at the moment, but I'll sort that out before I start.
Don J.
At 08:26 AM 4/30/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Don,
>This is one of the mails I got to help me in this, and it worked all
>great. Hope it helps you too!
>
>Paul
>
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>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:03:10 +0200
>From: flupke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home
>
>Paul wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Now I am in need of an answer.
> > I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is
> > a 1.6 Gb partition.
> > Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move
> > /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one.
> > These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2.
> > Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my
> > entire system?
> >
> > Thanks for the help and advice you can give me.
> > Paul
>
>First of all, if you're not confident with linux, read the whole mail
>before proceeding, and make sure you understand everything (if you
>don't, read the related man pages). I mean, don't do it "blindly".
>
>Let's say your / partition is on /dev/hda1 and you want to move /usr to
>/dev/hda2.
>
>All the following should be done ad root, so TAKE CARE AND THINK TWICE
>BEFORE HITTING YOUR 'ENTER' KEY!
>You should take one more precaution by going into single user mode (by
>typing "init 1") before doing this. Ok. Here we go.
>
>- First, you create a ext2 file system on /dev/hda2 with mke2fs.
> mke2fs /dev/hda2
>
>- Then you mount this partition. (Let's say in /mnt/tmp)
> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/tmp
>
>- You now have to transfer your /usr to /mnt/tmp. To do this, I'd use a
>command as :
> (cd /usr && tar cpf - .) | (cd /mnt/tmp && tar xpf -)
>
>Once this is done, rename your /usr directory (for instance in
>/usr.old), create a new /usr directory, umount your /dev/hda2 partition,
>and remount it into /usr.
> mv /usr /usr.old
> mkdir /usr
> umount /mnt/tmp
> mount /dev/hda2 /usr
>
>Finaly, update your /etc/fstab and add the line :
>/dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
>
>Voila! You're done!
>
>Useless to say that you do exactly the same for your /home partition.
>
>To go back to your previous runlevel, type init 3 (console login) or
>init 5 (graphical login).
>ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THAT YOUR NEWLY CREATED PARTITIONS ARE OK, you can
>delete your /usr.old and /home.old directories.
>
>If you need more infos, take a look at the Hard-disk-upgrade mini-HOWTO
>
>HTH
>Flupke
