On 08-Jan-2001 Jack Bowling opined:
> I need some confirmation: my /usr and /usr/local partitions are nearing
> the end of freespace. I have a 20 gigger I was going to use for backup
> spinning away ready to be filled. Can I just create two new partitions
> on it and link them to /usr and /usr/local? Seems like this is a
> natural
> ability for *nix. Or would I be better off linking the partitions via
> software RAID?
The way I usually do it is to make the partitions on the new drive, copy
(not move) everything from the 2 old partitions to the new, edit fstab to
reflect the new ones, then change to init 1, umount the old & mount the
new, then change to init 3.
Links work but, they can cause problems.
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It's no use arguing. I've already made up your mind.
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