I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the
directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made.
/dev/hda4 is currently mounted /
/dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount
I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib, /bin, and a couple
others over
I'd suggest that you consider putting more on your / partition (as opposed
to less as you propose) and then freeing up some space elsewhere.
Something I find useful is to have a separate partition for local
stuff, like home directories, /usr/local etc. I create a separate
partition, then make
Copying - I have used cp -a to good effect (transferring /usr amongst
others), e.g. cp -a /home/. /tmpmount.
CAUTION 1:
When you mount a filesystem, the visible effects are mounting a directory
tree structure, from the mount point down, so with only one filesystem (on
/dev/hda) you CANNOT replace
I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the
directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made.
/dev/hda4 is currently mounted /
/dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount
I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib, /bin, and a couple
others over to
I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the
directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made.
(1) from Tips-HOWTO:
Quick way to move an entire tree of files from one disk to another
(cd /source/directory tar cf - . ) | (cd /dest/directory tar xvfp -)
(2)
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Richard Morin wrote:
I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the
directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made.
/dev/hda4 is currently mounted /
/dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount
I'd like to be able to move /home,
Hi Richard, You wrote:
Richard
Richard I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving
Richard some of the directories off of my main partition and onto
Richard one I just made.
Richard
Richard /dev/hda4 is currently mounted / 8 is currently mounted
Richard /dev/hda/tmpmount
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