Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:07:41 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as it always ends in tears ... If you want two directories on the same partition, I prefer to mount them with --bind. I do this to have /usr, /var and /opt on a single

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-07 Thread capsel
I tryed to do links to directories on other partition on my experimental server with SELinux. It had some problems with labeling filesystem. Is it possible to solve this issue? 2005/10/7, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:07:41 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: If you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:40:24 +0200, capsel wrote: I tryed to do links to directories on other partition on my experimental server with SELinux. It had some problems with labeling filesystem. Is it possible to solve this issue? Yes, use mount --bind instead. read the mail you quoted. --

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: if you want to use copy, I would prefer cp -a ;) Use tar since cp wont preserve empty dirs. # cd /path/to/old/dir # tar cf - * | ( cd /path/to/new/dir tar xf - ) They used tar, for some reasons they mentioned and I forgot ;) :) -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: if you want to use copy, I would prefer cp -a ;) Use tar since cp wont preserve empty dirs. # cd /path/to/old/dir # tar cf - * | ( cd /path/to/new/dir tar xf - ) What about rsync -a ? They used tar, for some reasons they

[gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to [with the boot-cd]

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as it always ends in tears ... Using a liveCD, create your partitions and directories, then copy everything over (rsync or tar is best to make sure its accurate), change your fstab then reboot. When you are happy its working,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Joe Menola
On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 07 October 2005 03:52, Matthias Langer wrote: Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Roy Wright
John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be