Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 10:51:10 -0600 From: Jim Thario <jim@thario.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Moving partitions Message-ID: <39DE02FE.A802A4E0@thario.com>
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Hi everyone. I have a 686 running FreeBSD 4.x with a 4 gigabyte hard disk. I'm going to add a 15 gigabyte disk to the machine and split the space on this disk between /var and /usr/home. Once the drive is installed, partitioned, formatted, ready and willing - is there anything special I need to consider when copying the directories and files over? Here is my process: mount the new /var parition as /newvar, for instance, and do a "cp -Rp" to copy everything over from /var to the /newvar partition. I will do the copy in single-user mode for extra safety. Next, I would add the entries into /etc/fstab for the new partition and restart the system. If that works, I will do the same for /usr/home. Am I missing anything? Is there a better or safer way to move this stuff? Thanks in advance! -- Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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