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Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:54:53 +0100
From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: moving /usr
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Perttu Laine wrote:

> I running freebsd 5.4 and I have /usr on one single drive now. I have
> hardware ready and going to install SATA RAID into same box. Now I would
> like to move /usr into that raid and remove old drive where /usr is. 
> So is
> all I need to do copy whole /usr to new installed raid mirror and change
> mounting in fstab and reboot? Or is there something more I need to do? I
> suppose that should do it, but I'd just wanna be sure so I ask first 
> and not
> after it's broken. :)
>
I believe that is exactly enough.  Move the data with dump/restore.

--Alex