On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > OK - I umounted /holding and mounted the new /usr. I ran a cat command, > then a cp one. I then used vi to change fstab, and ran telinit 5.
Well, that's not much of a workout of /usr, I'm afraid - at least here on my 9.0 system, both of those commands live in /bin ... but vi worked, and we've seen that that links to /usr/bin/vim-enhanced, so that counts. :) > I did not hear the kde splash tune, but apart from that everything seems > fine. The directory /holding still shows in konqueror, but I presume it > is the mount point created earlier, not a directory as such? Anyway, it > shows as empty. fstab is, as expected, pointing hde10 to /usr. What > other checks should I run, before taking the plunge and deleting the old > /usr contents? Yes, /holding is now merely an empty directory, the former mount point of that partition. Remember, the only difference between a mount point and a plain directory is that the former is also used to mount a partition. If you stop mounting things there, it stops being a mount point. :) I'd say that the key to knowing when you're done is that you've given the system a good workout. First, make sure that fstab says this exactly: /dev/hde10 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 Then do everything you normally would, and watch for oddities. This would include rebooting, logging in and out (perhaps with various WMs), running familiar apps, pulling up a few man pages, pretty much anything that will exercise the programs and files on /usr and verify to your satisfaction that the copy is a completely accurate one. First thing I'd do is log out and in again, and listen for that KDE sound; that should work just as it did before, along with everything else. If it still doesn't, time to investigate why not. Start that with a reboot. Once you're satisfied that things are working as they should, go for it. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley
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