From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: moving /gnu to different disk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:29:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160112222902.GA5739@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHEkXCTOUkua=P1+ChHJ6D9UfOnS_kzdCsoEGDMU=gj7rcAAFQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:39:02PM -0800, carl hansen wrote:
> Rather than trying the following, I thought, "Why not ask first?"
>
> Due to the sizes of various hard disks in my machine, I want to move /gnu
> to /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu
> and then do
> mount --bind /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu /gnu
>
> (I have already formed a superstition that
> ln -s /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu /gnu
> won't work)
>
> I see a vast collection of hard links in /gnu/store/.links...
>
> I forsee problems when copying /gnu, not reproducing hard links
> but reproducing the data.
You could try moving the data with `rsync --hard-links`. Of course you
should test that it works as expected first or you might end up out of
space on the new device, too!
From the rsync man page:
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
Of course, there may be a better solution altogether.
>
> Are my fears founded? How to proceed?
> Or better to start over with new installation of gnux and /gnu?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-12 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 21:39 moving /gnu to different disk carl hansen
2016-01-12 22:29 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-01-13 11:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-12 22:29 ` Andreas Enge
2016-01-13 4:31 ` carl hansen
2016-01-13 11:14 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-01-15 14:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-01-13 18:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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