Eric Maryniak wrote:
At 2000-05-09 00:40, you wrote:
Need to move /usr to a different partion, any good way ? /Dee
I tried this, by moving /usr to /newbigdisk/usr and making a symlink /usr -> /newbigdisk/usr (of course in single user mode), but... that did not work because unfortunately, there are lots of "-> ../" type symlinks in user (who expect that ../ is /), and you'll get ldconfig and other sorts of errors. (the suse developers probably used this strategy to have / mounted variously (flop, disk) working).
Hi, I just did it and it still works :) My procedure: 1. mount /dev/hda5 /temp 2. cd /usr 3. tar -cvf /temp/usr.tar 4. cd /temp 5. tar -xvf usr.tar 6. mount /dev/hda5 /usr (in /etc/fstab) Bye, Sander
Best is imho to move put /usr on a new partition. If you use LVM (Logical Volume Manager) this is supposedly simpler and easier, but i had some problems with that, too :-/
Good luck!
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