Re: resizing root partition
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> -- Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> wrote
> > find usr|cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr
should be
cd /usr
find . | cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr
or you will get /mnt/newusr/usr/
> What does this do? I've used find before, but I'm not familiar with the
> '-pmd' options; man doesn't elaborate on them, either.
-pmd are options for cpio. Basically, it copies all files listed on
standard input to the directory /mnt/newusr (p=passthrough, m=modify
timestamp, d=create directories as needed). The net result is the same
as cp -ar, but that one is not available on all unix systems
The real way of doing this is of course:
cd /usr
find . -print |cpio -o |(cd /mnt/newusr;cpio -ivmd)
This should work on any unix system you find.
Frank
> That make sense, and it's the route I'd like to go (I don't see much
> need to expand the root partition so much as to allow a larger /usr
> area).
>
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> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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