oops! -- any disadvantages here ?
This is what I did.
[all remotely via SSH]
on a redhat 7.3 with 2 disks, the default install was just with a boot swap and / at hda1 2 and 3 resepectively. Since I wanted more partition, what I did was made hdb1, then did a cp -a to all /bin .... /tmp [expect proc and lost+found ] in the hdb1 mounted at /mnt/floppy and then changed the fstab such that the / is changed to hdb1.
after rebooting, leaving /boot and swap intact, i removed / and made new / usr var tmp and home as per my requirement. after mke2fs, i mounted them in /mnt/floppy and then once again cp -a all /bin .... /tmp back from hdb1 to their respective partitions, and then changed fstab such that they now all now represent from hda.
after a reboot, I got what I wanted, no errors whatsoever on any logs.
Now the big question is, what are the disadvantages of this in the long run or it really doesn't matter at all ?
