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- From: subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao)
- Subject: Re: How to move a filesytem?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.153031.21760@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <BzFBx0.ECD@encore.com> <1992Dec18.110817.6773@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:30:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.110817.6773@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> serini@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Piero Serini) writes:
- >tma@encore.com (Thanh Ma) writes:
- >
- >>My /usr filesystem is full and I would like to move it to a newly-
- >>installed second hard disk with the same name /usr. Please show
- >>me how to do it. Also how do i reuse the space that /usr on the
- >>1st disk occupied?
- >
- >In single user mode:
- >
- ># cd /
- ># mkdir usr2
- ># mount /dev/newdisk /usr2
- ># cd usr
- ># tar cf - . | compress | (cd /usr2 ; uncompress | tar xf - )
- >
- >this will be quite long ...
-
- Of course it will, if you put compress and uncompress there. Why do that?
-
- -Kartik
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