On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, rich wrote: > I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux
Didn't we just do this one? :} First go to single user mode. It is probably not necessary but won't hurt. > 1. as root, cp -r -p /usr /linux2a The correct sequence is: cd /usr tar cf - . | (cd /linux2a; tar xvf - ) cp gets things subtly wrong from time to time. That includes sparse files, device files and pipes, and hard links. You probably won't encounter any of these on /usr (although you might!). But why do it wrong when you can do it right? > 2. change fstab to mount /dev/hdb1 as /usr (with options set to > "defaults, errors=remount -ro" ???) You should use the same mount options that you have for /usr currently. I see no reason why this process should generate filesystem errors. > 3. rm /usr This will not work. You want 'umount /usr'. You'll have to be in the / directory to do that and you can't have any processes running that are using any directory under /usr as their current directory, or which have any files open on that partition. You can use 'fuser' to determine which processes are using the /usr partition. In practice it may be simpler to reboot at this point. > 4. mount -a ok. That should work. :}
