On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:16:01PM -0400, John wrote:
> Not directly; just partition and newfs the second drive, edit the fstab,
> mount it in /mnt or something, then mv /usr/* /mnt, then restart.

Hrm.

( cd /usr && tar cpf - . ) | ( cd /mnt && tar xpf - ) would probably
be safer, no?

There is also, of course, no need to reboot if you've done all this
from within an installed system.

I think the original question has more bearing in the situation
where / is not big enough to accomodate all of the install sets.
Best to go with the minimum (base.tgz and etc.tgz should get one a
minimally useable system, no?), then do the above moving of /usr to
the new disk, then unpack the rest of the sets by hand (your choice
of pax -r -pe /path/to/sets/*.tgz or for i in /path/to/sets/*.tgz;
do tar xpf $i ; done... you'd probably want to read the man page
before blindly issuing those commands, though).

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