On Thursday 07 October 2004 19:59, # Subodh # wrote: > hi ! > > i installed my debian system on one partition and a swap partition. now one > more partition is available to me. i want to shift my "/usr" "/home" and > "/var" to this new partition. how do i go about it... > will fstab entry of mounting same partition in the 3 loc. will work okie > (after i have copied their data to the new partition)... especially i would > like to keep the sub directories n files of these 3 directories separate.
Copy the data in archive mode keeping ownership,mode,timestap,link etc intact. I would recommend you to do this in single user mode. Then update fstab take backups of the output of "fdisk -l" df -h , mount etc to revert back incase something goes wrong. -- Yash > > regards > > Subodh > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
