Hi all
I have my PTP here, with OS X 10.2 on it, and I'd like to know if its possible to just move the whole startup volume to another volume using the mv command. Under Linux you can mv / /<new spot here> -rf and that will move your whole root filesystem, which is the whole shebang in Linux, to the new volume. On the Mac, can I do this and have the new, bigger volume work? This current install seems to work just fine, but its on a tiny 2 GB drive and it won't let me do the update to 10.2.8 which promises many improvements. I'd like to shove it on an 8GB RAID of two drives which are on the Adaptec SCSI controller, that would be much faster than the dinky 2GB drive on the old Mac external (slow) SCSI port, which is where the magic starts right now.
I started to do it in a shell after doing an su -root I did: mv -if / /smallRAID
and it responded..
'overwrite smallRAID?'
I said no because I didn't want to lose the stuff on there now, plus I didn't know if I moved everything, that it would still be blessed as a startup volume or not. The smallRAID volume is 8GB in size, plenty for an X install. But its a different size than the current startup volume, if that matters.
Anyone tried this before? Did it gank your system?
Bolton
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