Rod Butcher wrote:
I need to move my /usr partition from one hd to another... any
suggestions as to best practice here ?
I've found rsync to be pretty good for this.
Shut down to single user mode (telinit 1).
Unmount all partitions you aren't using (e.g. /home)
Make sure your filesystems are created OK, e.g:
mke2fs -j -L /usr /dev/newfs
Mount the new /usr filesystem
mkdir /mnt/newfs
mount /dev/newfs /mnt/newfs
rsync the files
cd /usr
rsync -a . /mnt/newfs
edit your /etc/fstab or relabel your old /usr
file system (or else you will have two filesystems
both labelled /usr), reboot, and you should be away.
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