On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote:
<-]Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:36:06 +0100
<-]From: Yatsen Ng
<-]To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
<-]Subject: [SLE] Creating partitions
<-]
<-]Hi there,
<-]
<-]Let's say I want to create additional partitions as subdirectories. For example
<-]'/opt' Are these the correct steps I need to take?
<-]
<-]Create new partition and set mount point /opt
<-]restart
<-]umount /opt
<-]tar czvf opt.tgz opt
<-]mv opt opt.orig
<-]mkdir opt
<-]mount /opt
<-]tar xzvf opt.tgz
Hi,
Don't use tar to do that... There is a simple trick to achieve what you
want to do, assuming that your new partition is ready and can be used:
mv /opt /opt_old
mkdir /opt
mount -t ext2 /dev/hd** /opt
cp -dpR /opt_old/* /opt/.
rm -rf /opt_old
And then the only task remaining is to modify your fstab file.
I have done this so many times and it never failed.
ciao
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