| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:00:17 +0100 |
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:01:55AM -0500, pinkee@cavegirl.org wrote:
> I appreciate any input, and am more than willing to answer the questions
> I forgot to address in this :)
Do you plan to leave the old 10 GB drive around?
What's the label on this disk look like now? (Is /home a separate
partition, or on the same partition as /? What about /var?)
How big are your existing /var and /home? Are they really growing
fast enough to hit 80 GBs, realistically speaking? More importantly
(since you've already bought the drive) are the *other* bits of the
system that are growing significantly and belong on the new drive
too?
My favored way for moving files around within a system is this:
( cd fromdir && tar cpf - . ) | ( cd todir && tar xpf - )
This is almost always faster than rsync. Even across a network, you
probably want to do something like the above piping through {r,s}cp
(depending on the security of the network). It's only when you're
trying to maintain two live file systems that people actually look
at, and that need to be in sync that you want rsync. (And it kicks
ass at that.)
Hope this helps some...
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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net
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