On 13/04/06, Donald D Henson wrote:

(SuSE Linux 10.0)

I need to add some disk space to my /public folder. I am currently running a single partition on a single 125 GB disk drive. My intentions are to mount the new drive to a temporary folder, /pubnew for example, copy everything from /public to /pubnew, delete the files in /public, and then rename /pubnew to /public. On the surface, this sounds okay but it is so simple that it makes me think I have missed something. Can anybody see a way that this procedure can get me into serious trouble? I'd appreciate any comments.

Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules

I think I would be tempted to at least rename the old '/public' file to /publicold just in case anything wasn't right. I wouldn't delete it for a few days until I was happy the transfer was ok. Over the top maybe but I've seen enough data lost by cavalier usage to be ultra cautious now :-) No doubt others can offer some better suggestions as well. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to the next one that way. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:03 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:

(SuSE Linux 10.0)

I need to add some disk space to my /public folder. I am currently running a single partition on a single 125 GB disk drive. My intentions are to mount the new drive to a temporary folder, /pubnew for example, copy everything from /public to /pubnew, delete the files in /public, and then rename /pubnew to /public. On the surface, this sounds okay but it is so simple that it makes me think I have missed something. Can anybody see a way that this procedure can get me into serious trouble? I'd appreciate any comments.

The last time I did something along those lines, I changed the name if the original directory and then mounted the new disk where the old directory was. I then copied (I'm thinking rsync next time I try this, it depends on if the ownership and permissions come with it,) the old files to the new partition/directory, and then fixed the ownership and permissions.

Donald D Henson wrote:

(SuSE Linux 10.0)

I need to add some disk space to my /public folder. I am currently running a single partition on a single 125 GB disk drive. My intentions are to mount the new drive to a temporary folder, /pubnew for example, copy everything from /public to /pubnew, delete the files in /public, and then rename /pubnew to /public. On the surface, this sounds okay but it is so simple that it makes me think I have missed something. Can anybody see a way that this procedure can get me into serious trouble? I'd appreciate any comments.

Sounds good except for the renaming which is unnecessary - I would probably recommend using rsync instead of 'cp' - that'll make the copy process restartable. mount new partition at /new rsync -avH /public/* /new umount /public umount /new mount new partition at /public. Now you can do whatever you want with your old partition. /Per Jessen, Zürich