On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 01:39:44AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > 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 - )
You can get away without p on that second tar?? I would rather use: tar cf - . | (cd /linux2a && tar xvfp - ) > 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. :} > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
