On Tuesday 12 October 2004 14:34, Jeff wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a quick and easy way to move a main OS directory (im thinking /usr > since its taking up most of the space - ~900MB) to a different drive > without any hassle. At the moment all but /home are on hda2 but this disk > is almost full. Ive already got another drive installed with plenty of free > space (hdc). I suspect this will cause problems but thought its worth > asking. Assuming hdc is installaed and partitioned (hdc1) as ext3, mounted in /mnt/new_usr you can just do this. 1. Go to runlevel 1. $> init 1 2. Copy the content of /usr $> cp -a /usr/* /mnt/new_usr/ 3. Edit fstab to mount /usr automatically next boot, and include /dev/hdc1 /usr ext3 defaults 1 1 4. Reboot After reboot, if you do "df -h" it will shows that /usr is mounted /dev/hdc1. Now if you sure everything works correctly, you can go back to init1, umount /usr, this will then show you the old /usr, not the one in /dev/hdc1, and remove everything: "rm -rf /usr/*" so that you have more space in your /dev/hda2. Be Careful !!!! Then mount /usr/ back. I've done this before, and I had no problem. But the disclaimer is, don't blame me if something goes wrong !! :) RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
