From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: moving /gnu to different disk
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:14:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160113131434.5887b13f@debian-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHEkXCTOUkua=P1+ChHJ6D9UfOnS_kzdCsoEGDMU=gj7rcAAFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:39:02 -0800
carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Are my fears founded? How to proceed?
> Or better to start over with new installation of gnux and /gnu?
When I moved mine from / to a new partition I did `cp -a` and it all worked well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-13 11:14 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
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 [this message]
2016-01-15 14:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-01-13 18:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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