Re: [PLUG] Dumb (?) drive question

[Mike Cramer <cramer@webkist.com>]

William Shank wrote:

> 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.


(as root)
# cd /usr
# tar cpf - . | ( cd /mnt/tmp; tar xpf - )

Should do the copy just fine, including symlinks.

Then you should edit /etc/fstab so the filesystem you copied everything 
onto mounts at /usr on reboot. Then, make sure you rename your old /usr 
to something else (like /usr-old) *BEFORE* you do the reboot so you can 
actually get to it once the new filesystem is mounted.

Having a good boot floppy would be a very smart idea before you attempt 
this.

--
Mike Cramer
http://www.webkist.com/


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