On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:49 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote: > ... > > > > > > telinit 1 > > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What > > can I do about this? > > Check /root/.bash_history -- did you miss the slash between usr and > *? > I don't think I did - I checked it before hitting enter, but what I typed after telinit 1 doesn't show up in root's bash history.
> > > > > umount /holding > > > > > vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. > > > > I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a > > partition, but a directory. Do I just mv /usr /holding? > > > > Anne > > risky to do a mv instead of cp. Also, when you finished mounting > /dev/hde10 you'd end up with /usr/usr, which won't work. > Oops - I think I've been unclear again. I meant, once I have everything in the right place in the new /usr, I need to rename the old /usr so that the poor system doesn't get its knickers in a twist. It's at that point that I thought I should use mv. Am I wrong? Anne
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