Jason, Thanks I tried the command but I think I will have to be root because it gave me permission denied. By loosing my system, I think I know what you mean. It was funny. I made a directory /home and mounted it. My /home/timothy directory was gone. I was upset, I thought I lost it untill I unmounted it and there it was again. I learned something though. If I did that I think /usr would still be there but just covered by the empty directory and thus making the system unoperable. If remove the /usr mount it would work properly. I'd have to use a rescue disk to unmount /usr though. That's if it worked the same way as my /home directory learning curve went.
I think I went through the same procedure belove only using tar. Again Thanks Tim On Sunday 09 November 2003 11:44 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:11:55PM -0600, Timothy Bolz wrote: > > I was running out of diskspace. > > > > The question I have is what directory uses up the most > > space > > # cd / > # du -sk * > > > and could I just mount it for example /usr and would /usr use this > > partiton to extend itself. > > Not sure what you mean by "extend itself", but when you mount /usr, > you will mask whatever was in /usr, so you can't mount an empty > partition as /usr, or you will lose your system. > > Assume /dev/hda3 is /, /mnt is open for temporary mounts, and you're > going to mount /dev/hda6 as /usr: > > # mke2fs /dev/hda6 > # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt > # cp -a /usr/* /mnt > # umount /mnt > # mount /dev/hda6 /usr > # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt > # rm -rf /mnt/usr/* > # umount /mnt > # echo "/dev/hda6\t/usr\text2\tdefaults\t1 1" >> /etc/fstab > > Of course, this is hypothetical, I didn't tell you to do this, and > if you lose your system, it's not my fault ;] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
