On Monday 27 January 2003 19:03, john gennard wrote: > If possible I'd like to avoid reinstalling Woody onto the > new drive (and it's no use waiting for it to crash as it > never does). I can find a 3gig primary partition on hda > which I could use in whole or part to take /usr. But how > to transfer it there? I have partition magic and parted > and have been looking at these, but am reluctant to 'have > a go' - there seem a number of imponderables.
You can just create a filesystem on that partition anc copy that stuff there. Just mout it (let's say at /mnt/temp) and then cp -a /usr/* /mnt/temp -a tells cp to preserve links, permissions, timestamps etc. Afterwards you go to single-user mode, umount /usr, mount the correct device and update your fstab. That's about all there is. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
