moving some directories to the New partition but still preserving the links

From: bj (bhamal_at_wlink.com.np)
Date: 02/22/05

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    Hi !

    I have Red Hat 8 on a intel P 4 machine with 512 MB memory .

    Thanks to all , I was able to partition my 60 GB hard drive creating
    extended drives .

    Now I want to move some of directories under my root to my extended
    partition that has already been formatted with mkfs.ext3.

    I have got the procedure to move /tmp and /var to their own shared
    partition .

    I want to move /usr , /applications , /backup , /home , misc , /proc , /tmp
    .

    I want to mount /dev/hda5 as /usr & /dev/hda6 as /home or what ever most
    suitable .

    But my greatest worry is how to make sure that the previously installed
    applications work after the move .

    How to preserve the symbolic & hard links as files are moved across
    different partitions.

    Please advice if it is possible to do a successful move of some of the
    directories under / and still preserve the links and make the applications
    work.

    Thanks in advance ,

    cheers,
    bj

    My root directory structure is as ffs :-

    applications
    backup
    bin
    boot
    dev
    etc
    home
    initrd
    lib
    lost+found
    misc
    mnt
    opt
    proc
    root
    sbin
    tftpboot
    tmp
    usr
    var 

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