Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So sprach Brian Caffrey am Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:16:29PM -0800:
> > .... The only problem with this
> > that I have found is that all hard links will become
> > there own file, hence more disk space usage.
>
> Ah! So tar *breaks* things, whereas cp will not. Good to know. Thanks.
Exactly what I was thinking. Not preserving hard links is 'a bad thing' (tm ;-)
On the subject of moving /usr (I usually move /usr/src, so its not as
risky ;-) - as others have mentioned, be sure that you
1 - have a rescue boot disk around just in case
2 - have a backup just in case
3 - do not remove the old /usr until after you have rebooted.
4 - edit your /etc/fstab
5 - rename the old /usr and immediately mount the new one - and
pray that 'mount' does not need any libs on /usr! (It shouldn't,
else you could not mount /usr during bootup! So your
real risk is that 'mv' is linked dynamically against something
in /usr, since the sequence is:
cd / ; mkdir /usr.new ; mv /usr /usr.orig ; mv /usr.new /usr ; mount /usr
6 - reboot to know now whether you are dead or not ;-) (Rather than later)
7 - make sure EVERYTHING works. THEN remove /usr.orig
And now I'll shut up ;-)
rc
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