William Shank on Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:31:30 -0500 |
i assume you have /usr and /usr/local under the / partion (not on it's own partition). while it is possible to move / it's best not to try unless you are an expert. you would need to make sure that you update your loader (grub or lilo), have the bios configured to boot the other drive, and probable many more things. now if you do want to just move /usr or /usr/local, that's easier, since it doesn't fiddle with your boot process. assuming you have the new drive installed, you'll need to partion it as desired, adn format the new partions (ie: ext2, ext3, reiserFS, etc.). After you have the new partitions formatted, you can mount them temporarily, under say /mnt/tmp (ie: mount -t ext2 /dev/hde2 /mnt/tmp - i think this is the right syntax - if not exactly, then very close). from there you can manually copy the data - but ik don't know what this will do to symbolic links. one of our more admin minded members may suggest a better copy option. once you have the data on the new partion, unmount /mnt/tmp. unmount /usr or /usr/local (whichever you were moving), change /etc/fstab to associate /usr or /usr/local with the new partition. then mount /usr/local (or /usr). i think that's everything. but you may want to double check running linux or another linux admin book. good luck -chris -----Original Message----- From: Tobias DiPasquale To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org Sent: 12/17/01 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] Dumb (?) drive question Jon Roig wrote: > Hey all... > > I'm fairly new to the world of linux... and although I've been pretty > pleased with myself for figuring out everything so far, this one has me > stumped. > > I'm using suse 7.2 and I've filled up one of my drives -- particularly the / > partition. So... I installed a spankin' new 20 gig drive and got it > formatted, mounted, etc... > > Here's my question -- how the heck do I move that partition? > You don't. The root partition is not to be moved. What you CAN do, is move /usr/ or /usr/local/ off of the / partition and onto their own partition (possibly on the new disk). However, as far as I know, this cannot be done without a reinstall. Anyone know of a way to do this without blowing everything away and doing it again? -- Tobias DiPasquale Solaris System Administrator Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Villanova University mailto: anany@ece.vill.edu tel: 610-519-5109 ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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