Moving/merging a filesystem back into /
Linda Walsh
rsync at tlinx.org
Wed Dec 4 22:03:27 MST 2013
On 12/4/2013 4:01 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> Thanks Linda... I was initially planning on using cp for this, but
> someone on the gentoo list convinced me that rsync was better (not
> sure why now)...
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cp didn't support ACL's and xattrs about 3-4 years ago. rsync was
maybe the 2nd
large util that did (star was the first, but it doesn't seems as popular
today)...
>> or "star" would be better.
>> If you have other things mounted on /usr
> For the purpose you are stating, copying all of /usr using "cp"
>
> Nothing else mounted on/under /usr...
>
> But... what exactly is meant by the -x switch ('stay on same filesystem')?
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If you had a separate /usr/share, for example, when it got to 'share',
the "-x" wouldn't follow that onto the mounted file system.
The reason I mentioned remounting is that a mount can hide files (if you
mount a fs on top of a non-empty directory)... these are all "gotchas",
most of
which it sounds like you don't need to worry about.
FWIW, I'm talking about the "cp" from coreutils -- you can check the manpage
and -a = --preserve=all, and under all it mentions context, links,
xattrs, in
addition to ownership/timestamps...etc.
> Currently /usr is on a reiserfs formatted LVM partition, and / is ext3
> on a regular partition on a hardware RAID mirrored pair...
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I've never used reiserfs, but I don't see any red flags, either....
For a one time copy... 'cp' should work fine...
Also ... copy it from /usr->/usr.tmp -- that way you don't need to take
down your
system until the copy is done -- when done. boot into single user or a
rescue disk
and rename /usr.tmp ->/usr (and fix fstab to not mount the separate /usr)...
Good luck!
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