In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new
one while
ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?
This is the way I've done it dozens of times...its from the days prior to
cp having the correct attributes to do it correctly, and maintain last
access times,
Subject: Re: Moving partition
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:01:03PM -0400
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Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new
one while
ensure all links (and things like
Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Symbolic links are just names of files. If the path of the
destination stays the same (/usr is still /usr, even though the
mount table is different) you shouldn't have problems just using
cp. But I haven't done this before in truth.
I'm
I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr.
In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one
while
ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?
What is the command to format (initialise ?) a partition ?
Thanks
Franck
On Tue, Dec 22,
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote:
I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr.
In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new
one while
ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?
Symbolic links are just names of
How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one while
ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?
One way to do this is to use tar:
( cd /old/location ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /new/location ; tar xpf - )
What is the command to format (initialise ?) a partition ?
To create a file
Hi,
just a comment
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote:
I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr.
In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new
one while
ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?
Alexander Kushnirenko hat gesagt: // Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote:
I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr.
In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a
new one while
ensure all
I have no more space left on my /dev/hda2 partition which is mounted on /
I have a swap partition /dev/hda3
I can create a bigger partition (say /dev/hdb7) to temporary move my root
directory. I also can
create a new swap partition (/dev/hdb5)
Can I do this :
1 - Initialise /dev/hdb5 as a swap
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:16:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no more space left on my /dev/hda2 partition which is mounted on /
I have a swap partition /dev/hda3
I can create a bigger partition (say /dev/hdb7) to temporary move my root
directory. I also can
create a new swap
You could also make a new partition and mount it as /home, or /usr, or
some such.
Glad to hear that suggestion as that is precisely what I would do!
Actually, I never put it all on one partition anyway. Old habits
are hard to break. I like to get /var and /home OFF the root if
possible, and
I checked with PM tech, and they confirmed this. They can recognize and I
think create; but that's it.
Hank
-Original Message-
From: Ed Cogburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:37 AM
To: Debian Users
Subject: Re: moving partition boundries???
Richard E
:
I checked with PM tech, and they confirmed this. They can recognize and I
think create; but that's it.
Hank
-Original Message-
From: Ed Cogburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:37 AM
To: Debian Users
Subject: Re: moving partition boundries
I thought I saw an option for this in fdisk along the way, but now i can't
find it. Now that I've moved about 40 floppies over by hand (no network
card), I've found that if I set up a hibernation file in dos, the hardware
will automatically use it. So I'd like to peel back the end of my
/
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
I thought I saw an option for this in fdisk along the way, but now i can't
find it. Now that I've moved about 40 floppies over by hand (no network
card), I've found that if I set up a hibernation file in dos, the hardware
will automatically use it. So I'd
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