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.