[mdlug] Moving /usr

[Mat Enders]

The -a option means to archive so it copies them as symlinks

The original entries in fstab did not use uuids

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't used rsync much.  How does it handle symlinks?  There are
> many in the lib directories.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is a problem with UUIDs (if your
> distro uses them to identify drive partitions).
>
> On 9/20/11, Mat Enders <mat.enders at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>>           I recently had to move /usr on a machine.  Since moving /usr
>> when i boot the machine I get this message immediately after the bios
>> prompts are finished and before the boot process starts "error: file
>> not found".  After the machine comes up all appears to work normally.
>> I will now explain what i did to move /usr.
>>
>>   1) log in as root unmount /home
>>   2) resize /home
>>   3) create new partition in newly created free space
>>   4) edit fstab to mount new partition as /usr2
>>   5) reboot
>>   6) run rsync -a /usr/ /usr2
>>   7) run diff /usr /usr2 to ensure they are the same
>>   8) edit fstab to mount new partition as /usr instead of /usr2
>>   9) run mv /usr /usr3
>> 10) reboot
>> 11) get error but all appears to work correctly
>>
>> --
>> Mathew E. Enders
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