Date: 29 Oct 1999 14:37:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing ports install hard drive Message-ID: <86zox2gzyo.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Kevin Street's message of "28 Oct 1999 20:02:02 -0400" References: <000001bf2190$5c2e2b00$e752c2d0@david.cql.com> <87bt9jqbk5.fsf@mired.eh.local>
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Kevin Street <street@iname.com> writes:
> "David Kurtzberg" <david@cql.com> writes:
>
> > I recently added a scsi hard drive to my freebsd box and mounted it
> > under /usr2. I would like the programs that ports installed to be
> > installed on that drive, instead of /usr. How do I set this up?
>
> The easiest thing to do is probably to move all of /usr/local and
> /usr/X11R6 onto your new drive. Then create symlinks in /usr to point
> to them.
>
> # cd /usr
> # mv local /usr2
> # ln -s /usr2/local local
>
> and the same for /usr/X11R6.
>
> The mv will run for a while. You might consider taking a backup
> before you do this. You probably don't want to be running X or a
> shell that you've installed in /usr/local/bin while you're moving them
> (ie. go to single user first).
If going to single user is not an option, or you simply don't like the
extra reboot, you can use `cp' instead of moving the files.
# cd /usr
# cp -pR local /usr2 || echo 'failed.'
# cp -pR X11R6 /usr2 || echo 'failed.'
and then after checking that everything has been copied correctly, and
no 'failed.' messages were printed, you can `rm -fr' both /usr/local and
/usr/X11R6 and substitute them with links to proper places in /usr2.
Since this is on two separate disks, copying and deleting afterwards is
probably just a tiny bit safer.
--
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
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