Re: moving Woody /usr partition

2003-02-01 Thread john gennard
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 both nate and Nicos Gollan relied to my request: following ex nate quoted for reference:- > john gennard said: > > > I installed Woody whilst leaving Potato on this box > > and I've only now realised I did a sloppy job. > > /dev/hda contains all of Woody except /usr which I

Re: moving Woody /usr partition

2003-01-27 Thread nate
nate said: > 1) install the new disk, partition & format it as you like > 2) mount the disk somewhere on the root filesystem(I use /usr.new) 3) go > to single user mode ('init 1') > 4) cd /usr ; cp -a * /usr.new/ ; cd / ; mv usr usr.old > 5) edit /etc/fstab and add the new filesystem > 6) go back

Re: moving Woody /usr partition

2003-01-27 Thread Nicos Gollan
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 trans

Re: moving Woody /usr partition

2003-01-27 Thread nate
john gennard said: > I installed Woody whilst leaving Potato on this box > and I've only now realised I did a sloppy job. > /dev/hda contains all of Woody except /usr which I > put on hdb (hdb8 - 1.2gig) as there was surplus > space there. Nothing else on hdb needs to be retained. what I do .. 1