extending space

[Howard Gibson]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:19:49 -0400
Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Sammy Lao
> <sammy.lao-OvU2V46eqDdvgyatUqoQW0B+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Personally, I find moving the /home directory itself to be the
> > easiest. Less maintainence work.
> 
> Hear, hear!
> 
> Attempts to do an "in-place conversion" will require a fair bit of
> 'binary magick,' and it seems to me that it's a *way* simpler thing
> to:
> 
> a) Mount the new space some place new
> b) Use your existing backup mechanism to copy /home material to that new place
> c) Switch /home with the new place
> 
> If you haven't got backups, well, that's a really serious problem that
> should get rectified first.

Christopher,

   My backup strategy is to use my second hard drive as a backup device.  I can burn my latest backup to DVD whenever I want to.  That way, two hard drives have to fail before I lose data.

> -- 
> When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

   Send Tonto out for sysadmin training?

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