I had to alter a few things, but essentially, it worked pretty well. I
found that what I needed to do was to make a switch between /usr, which is
huge, and /home, which is not quite so huge. I finally had to just make
all the switches and hope for the best, as there wasn't enough room to save
/usr.old and do everything else, too. But so far, things seem to be
working. I moved /usr to the second hard drive where it sits all alone on
its big partition, and I moved /home to the main hard drive. I'll let you
know if anything else crops up, as things tend to do at atimes. But for
now, thanks a lot!
Don J.
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote:
> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:26:58 +0200 (CEST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd)
>
>
> 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
>
>
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