[lug] adding a new disk to a system

[Rob Riggs]

I've always used 'cp -a <src> <dest>'. It's short, sweet and easy to 
remember. And it has never failed me.

Hugh Brown wrote:

>I have a system that I added a new disk to and I want to move /home/samba
>to be on this new disk.  I also want to move /var to the new disk.
>
>The new disk has two partitions /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb5
>
>I tried the following:
>
>init 1
>mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/var
>mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/samba
>cd /var
>tar -cf - *|(cd /mnt/var; tar -xf -)
>cd /home/samba
>tar -cf - *|(cd /mnt/samba; tar -xf -)
>umount /mnt/var
>umount /mnt/samba
>mount /dev/sdb1 /var
>mount /dev/sdb5 /home/samba
>init 3
>
>The server is doing file serving and print serving for about 7 windows
>ME/2000 clients.  After it gets back to run level 3, the printing no longer
>works and a program which functions as a resume database claims that its
>database is in need of rebuilding.
>
>/var/log/messages doesn't have anything interesting in it.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Hugh
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