Re: moving filesystems

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, koyote wrote:

 : 
 : Scuse the newbie q:
 : 
 :    I've got some filesystems I'd like to move:
 : 
 :    /        on    /dev/hda2 --> /dev/hdb2

mke2fs /dev/hdb2
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt
find / -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
umount /mnt

 :   swap   on   /dev/hda1 --> /dev/hdb1

mkswap /dev/hdb1

 :   /usr     on   /dev/hdb2 --> /dev/sda1

mke2fs /dev/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
find /usr -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
umount /mnt

Edit your fstab.  Sorry there's not more detail, but you can read the
manpages for mke2fs, mkswap, mount, find, and cpio :)

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