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Re: Help move /usr to another partition





On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Arnold Marcus wrote:

> 
> 
> I originally installed all of the system on one partitition :-(
> 
> I freed a partition and would like to have /usr on this partitition.
> If it wasn't a system directory I would mount the new partition (eg: /new)
> as a filesystem, move all files to /new/usr, delete the original and create a
> symbolic link to the new filesystem eg: ln -s /new/usr /usr.
> This won't work ??, because in the stage between deleting and creating a link
> I have no /usr, and this it seems will break the system.
> 
> This is probably a trivial question but I have read all the relevant docs
> I could find and still don't know how to do it.

The simplest way ;Boot from 2 dikettes (i.e slakware boot and root)
or anything else .Mount your root partition at /mnt or any place you 
want and do all you wish .

                                   Meir .



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