On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030730 14:53]: > > > > > telinit 1 > > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What > > can I do about this? > > That SHOULD have put everything under /usr into /holding ... but > if you see /holding/usr/<lots of stuff> you can do: > > mv /holding/usr/* /holding/ > > Then you should be able to remove /holding/usr because it should be > empty: > > rmdir /holding/usr > OK - done that, and everything looks fine.
> > > > > 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? > > If at this point, you have identical directories/files under /usr > and under /holding, and /holding is a partition, then you won't > need to use mv to change /holding to /usr ... you'll do that by > changing the mount points in /etc/fstab. > > What makes this a little tricky is that when you reboot, you'll > have the same stuff in the new /usr as in what will be a kind of > phantom /usr that was mounted under / ... it's like what happens > if you copy something into /mnt/floppy while there is no floppy > disk mounted. When you mount the floppy, the stuff that was there > will appear to be gone, replaced by whatever is on the floppy. > Then when you unmount the floppy, the stuff that was there before > you mounted the floppy will appear. > > I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it takes > precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr works, you'll > have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, delete what is in > the /usr partition under / (and probably that /usr directory also) > and then remount your partition that holds the stuff from /usr. > Since by this time the new /usr will be mounted, are you saying that I won't be able to see the original /usr? If it's still there as a directory, can't I just delete the directory once I'm sure everything is ok? > This is why I like using Knoppix ... it's easier for me to > understand and be sure of what is going on with the partitions when > they're all mounted as /mnt/hda5, /mnt/hda6, etc. > > Hope this made it clearer rather than murkier ;-) I'm getting there <g> thanks to you all. Anne
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