On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:33:00 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/03/2015 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is booting with the single option on the kernels command line > > insufficient for this scenario? > > Gene, when you first boot, boot into rescue mode and login as root. > now /home is nicely idle, after you have installed the 3rd new drive > and have partitioned it. Now, let's assume it is now drive sdc with a > 1 and 2 partitions and you have formated them both with ext4. edit > your /etc/fstab file to add: > /dev/sdc1 /newopt ext4 > /dev/sdc2 /newhome ext4 > .and save it. > > now type mount newopt > and mount /newhome > cd / > cp -raf /home /newhome and take a nap > then cp -raf /opt /newopt then mow the lawn > When all done edit /etc/fstab again and change /newhome to /home and > /newopt to /opt. Remove any other references to your previous /opt and > or /home if you have them... save it and reboot. Voila! You should be > using the new partitions. Just type df to have a look-see. To regain > the old space, boot into rescue mode again as root, AFTER you are > happy with the result, cd into / and umount /home. The old home should > auto-magically appear. Type df to be sure. rm -rf the sucker. umount > /opt , type df again as insurance, and do the same thing. You will > have regained a bunch of space. Reboot and login as your user and find > /home and /opt using the new drive since fstab told your system what > to use and where. Type df in a terminal. All should be good. :) Ric > > p/s cp -raf will recursively copy all subdirectories and maintain file > attributes and ownership. If that drive is the second harddrive then > it will be referenced as sdb, so you will have sdb1 and sdb2 entries > in /etc/fstab God only knows what you will do with two terabyte /home > and /opt partitions! > > p/p/s Wait until I get some critique here, just in case I have > misspoke! But that should be basically correct. > Sounds about right Ric. If I can remember ny root password. But on a new install, I'd login as me, and sudo -i. No root pw has been set at that point. > > -- > My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: > "There are two Great Sins in the world... > ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. > Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. > http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html
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