On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 12:51 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:09:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 at 06:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: >>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:07:30PM -0800, Anita Rohani wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> A few hard disk partitions on our current Debian system are close >>>> to becoming full. I would like to install an addtional hard disk >>>> and extend the partitions on the current disk to the new disk. Is >>>> it possible to do so and are there any instructions avaliable on >>>> how to add and configure additional hard disks on Debian? >>>> >>> check the archives. i got a lot of good help recently on migrating a >>> partition. the course i chose was a mixture of tips. your ideal >>> solution might be other that mine. search the archives for partition >>> migration. >>> >>> essentially, create a filesystem on the new disk, set up a mount >>> point, mount it, cp -r the data, edit fstab to reflect the new >>> arrangement. don't delete the original until you're sure the new >>> partition is extant. >>> >> >> You most likely want cp -a rather than cp -r. > > cp -ax >
Okay, having read the man pages, I'm not sure how this does more than the -d option that -a includes. -a already stops you from following symlinks ... maybe I'm just being dense, but what additional situations does the -x cover? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
