On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:39:45PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Allen Heinecke thought:
> Ok... B) is the method that I was looking at using... but it just seems
> extremely involved and quite bulky... I mean... look at all the extra crap
> that you're leaving on the original drive...
Sorry, What extra crap? Are you talking about the contents of /usr that
remain on the old drive while you check out that everything transferred
properly? But, you delete that later.
[snip]
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 06:22:54PM -0700, Allen Heinecke wrote:
> > Alternatively, go with plan B (below)...
> >
> > (B) You want to add in the second HD to the system, but will keep the
> > first on installed as well (much easier!).
> >
> > Partition the new HD as you like and make each partition a "major"
> > part of the directory structure, like /usr/local or /tmp or /usr or
> > whatever. For the time being, mount these new partitions under
> > appropriate directories under /mnt (e.g. /mnt/usr/local) using the
> > mount commands I gave above.
> >
> > Copy everything from the current /usr directory over to what will be
> > the new /usr directory (just an example). So in this example, you do
> > something like
> >
> > cp -r /usr/ /mnt/usr
This should read
cp -dpR /usr /mnt/usr
To preserve permissions etc.
> >
> > Do this for all the directories you want to move across.
> >
> > **NOTE: You should leave your kernel image (probably in /boot, so
> > leave all of /boot), /etc, /bin and /sbin on the first harddrive,
> > otherwise you will have trouble booting!
> >
> > Now alter /etc/fstab to mount the new partitions under their new
> > directory names. So, for example, if the partition mounted as
> > /mnt/usr in the above case is /dev/hdd3, you would add a line to
> > /etc/fstab like
> >
> > /dev/hdd3 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> >
> > You can now reboot and verify that the new partition was mounted
> > under the right spot.
> >
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> > To reclaim your disk space, remove the above line from fstab,
> > reboot again (this puts the old /usr directory back) and then
> > remove all the contents of /usr (which frees up space on the
> > first HD). Finally, add the fstab line back and reboot again.
> > What could be easier?
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