In an older episode (Monday 14 October 2002 18:35), Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > I have a 2 disk single user workstation so i understand that you can easily restart the system.
> that is running out of room on > /usr. /home is on a second hard disk with scads of space > > > I'd like to move (with a sym link?) some of /usr which is on da1 over to > home which is on da0. Can anyone share some wisdom with me before I try > this? i am not sure it is wisdom, but i have done it as follows several times successfully ... let's assume you want to move /usr/local # mkdir /home/usr-local # cp -a /usr/local/* /home/usr-local/ # ls /home/usr-local # du -sh /home/usr-local once you are sure everything has been copied: # rm -rf /usr/local # ln -s /home/usr-local /usr/local maybe there are more elegant ways to switch, but this should work as far as i can tell ... and worked for me. hope this helps, wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
