[mdlug] Moving /usr

[Mat Enders]

I do not think the problem is the rsync as after it boots all works perfectly. 

And the -a switch includes all of the switches you recommend and more. 
Mat Enders from my BlackBerry®

-----Original Message-----
From: "Robert Adkins II" <radkins at impelind.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:25:06 
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Subject: Re: [mdlug] Moving /usr

I think you should have used more options on the command line, instead of
just -a and maybe just leave the -a out of the equation.

Instead use rsync -rlpt

Perhaps someone with more knowledge on this can provide better information.

--

Regards,
Robert Adkins II

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Mat Enders
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:19 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Moving /usr
> 
> 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
> >>
> >> --
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