Re: resizing root partition
-- Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> wrote
(on Friday, 04 April 2003, 10:21 PM +0200):
> 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.
Thanks for the clarification -- I'd though 'usr|cpio' was an or'd
regexp; this makes *much* more sense now.
Thanks for the help... off to parted my drive and move /usr to the new
partition!
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
http://matthew.weierophinney.net
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