-- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 04 April 2003, 07:31 PM +0200): > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:13:20AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > > my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd like > > to expand it -- or move my /usr area off onto another partition. Is this > > possible, and if so, can somebody point me to a howto? > > The easiest way is probably to put /usr somewhere else. A possible way > is: > > make a new partition and filesystem for /usr
How do I do this on an already partitioned disk? parted? > make a directory /mnt/newusr > mount the new partition at /mnt/newusr > cd / > find usr|cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr What does this do? I've used find before, but I'm not familiar with the '-pmd' options; man doesn't elaborate on them, either. > umount /mnt/newusr > init 1 (go to single-user) > cd / > mv usr usr.old > mkdir usr > mount the new partition at /usr > change /etc/fstab > (optional) reboot and check that everything works (after changing > partition tables, it is always a good idea to reboot to see if the > system comes up correctly. If you reboot 3 months later and it doesn't > work, you won't remember why) > rm -rf /usr.old That make sense, and it's the route I'd like to go (I don't see much need to expand the root partition so much as to allow a larger /usr area). -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://matthew.weierophinney.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
