Well this is one of those times I wish software designers would have followed the KISS principal, and design the Linux system in a way that is easily understandable, sigh... A recent set of updates broke, on one of my OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 x64 servers because of lack of disk space in the partition for the root partition for /. My investigations showed that the contents of /usr was taking up the lion's share of space (8GB) of the partition on which / is mounted, which only had 10GB of total space allocated to it. In other words, the /usr directory was not mounted in a separate partition, it was just a sub directory. So I thought the solution would be to simply create a separate partition on another disk drive, copy everything from /usr to the new partition, edit fstab to mount the new partition as /usr, rename the old /usr directory to something different like /usr_tmp, reboot and then delete the old /usr_tmp directory if everything worked OK, to get more space for /. Easy as pie right? WRONG! Things went badly haywire when I tried to reboot! Apparently something within the boot loader or early in the boot process/system startup phase (which I admit I poorly understand) is referencing /usr and got very unhappy about my attempt to move /usr to it's own partition. So much for the KISS principal... I have managed to restore my OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 system back to a bootable state, by using an older version of OpenSuSE that I had left on my system for just such an emergency and using it to access and edit the fstab and renaming /usr_tmp back to /usr, in my OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 root partition, so as to return these back to the state they were originally in. So now I am stumped, I cannot figure out what/how I need to change in the boot loader/GRUB/system loader stuff to get it to cope with a new location for /usr... Can some kind guru lead me out of this mess and tell me how I am suppose to be able to move my /usr directory to it's own partition? I do realize that messing with /usr is dangerous because so much of the system is dependent on it which is why I thought hard about the strategy I took and am so surprised that it failed.. Thanks, Marc.. -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org