Re: [PLUG] Moving /usr to a new partition properly

["Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Jonas" <bill@billjonas.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Moving /usr to a new partition properly


> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:08:56PM -0500, Barry Spindler wrote:
> > cp -a /usr/* /mnt/new_part
>
> Actually, I'd say just leave the * off.  If there are any dot-files, it
> would miss them.

OK; good point. I'll remember that.

cp -a /usr /mnt/new_part

> > This will copy all files (and directories) under /usr, preserving
> > permissions, ownership, and symlinks. Then umount the new partition.
> > Change fstab to point the new partition to /usr, move /usr out of the
way,
> > and mount the new partition to /usr. That should be it.. you shouldn't
have
> > reboot for this :)
>
> IMO, it'd be wise to switch to single-user mode first.  :)

Another good point. Thanks.




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