Re: moving partitions
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 15:40:07 +0200, Tom Allison wrote:
> I'm slowly working my way through an installation and have arrived at the
> point where I need to move partitions.
>
> I did a minimal installation and added lvm partitions.
>
> I now want to move the existing sections, like /usr/ to it's own lvm
> partition (/dev/vg/usr/ instead of somewhere on /dev/hda3)
>
> Is this what I do:
>
> mount /dev/vg/usr /mnt
> cp -a /usr/* /mnt/
> umount /mnt
>
> and so on for each partition.
>
> Then edit the fstab file accordingly and reboot.
>
> I have one question though. If I do this, then how do I remove the
> partitions under the original /usr directory (/dev/hda3) if /usr is now
> mapped to /dev/vg/???
You can use (c)fdisk or parted to remove the partition. However, you need
to know that hda4 will be hda3 after removing the partition and rebooting.
Maybe it's a better idia to add the partition to LVM.
> --
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