From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENhvP-0008DY-65 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:25:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j972FLla019249; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 02:15:21 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j972ARn6028143 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 02:10:28 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA54A18034 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:19:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01940-06 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:19:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.58] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E683A18031 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:19:07 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:19:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <4345C603.2040804@gmx.at> <200510062006.17686.menola@sbcglobal.net> <4345D4E3.5090108@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <4345D4E3.5090108@gmx.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510062119.58673.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: ae2664fe-014d-4592-aeb2-860a49cbfced X-Archives-Hash: 3a534a3cfa61569ab46634adab99e20b On Thursday 06 October 2005 20:52, Matthias Langer wrote: > Joe Menola wrote: > >On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: > >>I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, > >>because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both > >>directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed > >>very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to > >>[with the boot-cd] > >> > Now another genooist pointed out that it would be wiser to use rsync or > tar instead of just > # cp - r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ > So, should I enter > # rsync -r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ > or are there some options I should activate to make sure I get what I want > ? > > Thanks, Matthias rsync -a will get all times and permissions, /etc. I would STRONGLY second what the other guy said about lvm, though. If you buy a new hard drive, don't just put filesystems and partitions on it, go the LVM route, make the logical volumes small, and don't use the whole drive for lvs, you can grow anything you want later. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list