Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-18 Thread Richard Morin
> I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the > directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made. > > /dev/hda4 is currently mounted / > /dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount > > I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib, /bin, and a couple > othe

Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-17 Thread Simon Martin
Copying - I have used cp -a to good effect (transferring /usr amongst others), e.g. cp -a /home/. /tmpmount. CAUTION 1: When you mount a filesystem, the visible effects are mounting a directory tree structure, from the mount point down, so with only one filesystem (on /dev/hda) you CANNOT replace

Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> I'd suggest that you consider putting more on your / partition (as opposed > to less as you propose) and then freeing up some space elsewhere. Something I find useful is to have a separate partition for local stuff, like home directories, /usr/local etc. I create a separate partition, then make

Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-16 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Richard, You wrote: Richard> Richard> I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving Richard> some of the directories off of my main partition and onto Richard> one I just made. Richard> Richard> /dev/hda4 is currently mounted / 8 is currently mounted Richard> /dev/hda/tmpmount

Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-16 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Richard Morin wrote: > I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the > directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made. > > /dev/hda4 is currently mounted / > /dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount > > I'd like to be able to move /ho

Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-16 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
>I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the >directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made. (1) from Tips-HOWTO: Quick way to move an entire tree of files from one disk to another (cd /source/directory && tar cf - . ) | (cd /dest/directory && tar xvfp -)

moving directories to new partition

1996-12-16 Thread Richard Morin
I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made. /dev/hda4 is currently mounted / /dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib, /bin, and a couple others over to /dev/