Re: Moving selected file systems to new hard disk
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 11:43:46PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:25:40PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > > I had kept a copy of a really great article posted on another mailing list > > for this but now seem to have lost it. I would like to upgrade and move > > things like /home and /usr to a new scsi hard disk drive which has much more > > room. The old disk is /dev/sda and I am installing a new IBM 18 gig scsi > > drive to /dev/sdb. I would definitely like to get /home there since it > > seems to grow quite quickly. If /usr could move also, that would be cool. > > cd /old; > tar cvf - . | ( cd /new-path; tar xvf - ) please add the -p switch to those tars so he does not come back asking why all the permissions/owners got ruined ;-) -- Ethan Benson
Re: Moving selected file systems to new hard disk
I had kept a copy of a really great article posted on another mailing list for this but now seem to have lost it. I would like to upgrade and move things like /home and /usr to a new scsi hard disk drive which has much more room. The old disk is /dev/sda and I am installing a new IBM 18 gig scsi drive to /dev/sdb. I would definitely like to get /home there since it seems to grow quite quickly. If /usr could move also, that would be cool. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I recently did this on my system, and this is the advise I received. Create the new partitions on /dev/sdb, then mount each partition under /mnt. Go to the directory you want to move, the example shows /usr, but /home, /var and such should be the same. I was told there was some issue with sockets not moving correctly with tar, but I don't know what a socket is, and I was able to move /usr with no issues. As I am new to Linux as well, I asked for, and got a very good explanation of what this command did. After I had moved the directories, I just needed to update /etc/fstab to mount the new partitions under the proper directories. I'm still waiting to copy and resize my root partition. > cd /usr > tar cpf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpf -) > tar: you know this c : create p : preserve permisions (rwx and owners, etc) f : file name, the next arg will give the name of the file - : most commands understand this to mean stdin/stdout. tar is one, so this is stdout. . : the current directory. if you make a tar file of . and then do a tar t of it, everything will look like ./foo, ./bar, ./zoo/cow, and so on. an ls -a will show both . and .. dirs. the parenthesis around the other two commands force them into a subshell, so it's almost like piping into a shell script. that way the cd command takes effect, and that's also why the cd doesn't affect your current session - at the end of this command you'll still be in /usr.
Re: Moving selected file systems to new hard disk
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:25:40PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > I had kept a copy of a really great article posted on another mailing list > for this but now seem to have lost it. I would like to upgrade and move > things like /home and /usr to a new scsi hard disk drive which has much more > room. The old disk is /dev/sda and I am installing a new IBM 18 gig scsi > drive to /dev/sdb. I would definitely like to get /home there since it > seems to grow quite quickly. If /usr could move also, that would be cool. cd /old; tar cvf - . | ( cd /new-path; tar xvf - ) -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/
Moving selected file systems to new hard disk
I had kept a copy of a really great article posted on another mailing list for this but now seem to have lost it. I would like to upgrade and move things like /home and /usr to a new scsi hard disk drive which has much more room. The old disk is /dev/sda and I am installing a new IBM 18 gig scsi drive to /dev/sdb. I would definitely like to get /home there since it seems to grow quite quickly. If /usr could move also, that would be cool. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
