On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:49:32AM -0400, Hoyt wrote:
It would be far simpler to boot to a floppy-based Linux
like tomsrtbt to do the job.
If you suggest this, than my answer is: No! The simplest thing would be to
go to init level 1 and do all the moving around. And it's a lot faster than
Patrick Erler wrote:
hello MANDRAKE!
i'd like to add a new harddrive to my system and move some of the
bigger directories to it. i have basically no problem with the
operation but one thing.
beside moving uncritical directories like /home i'd like to move my
/var tree and /tmp to the
hello MANDRAKE!
i'd like to add a new harddrive to my system and move some of the
bigger directories to it. i have basically no problem with the
operation but one thing.
beside moving uncritical directories like /home i'd like to move my
/var tree and /tmp to the new drive...
i'm afraid of
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 04:03:05PM +0200, Patrick Erler wrote:
1) cp -dpR /var /mnt/drive2
2) rm -rf /var
3) ln -s /mnt/drive2/var /
what will happen between 2) and 3) when a daemon tries to write
to the logs or the tmp dir?
If /var is just a normal directory, and not a mount point, I
- Original Message -
From: "Alexander Skwar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Patrick Erler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "MANDRAKE" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] new drive - moving directories
On Sat, Sep 30, 200
