I'm not sure what you mean by "system disk," but it is fairly easy to move /usr to a new partition, if that's what you mean. If you want to move your entire "/" (root directory) to a new partition (or partitions), it's a bit more complicated but is fairly similar to the steps below.
For my example, /dev/hda6 is the new partition and I'm going to use reiserfs. This won't mess anything up, if done correctly. 0) Make the new partition with fdisk or cfdisk. 1) REBOOT! <-- Just do it. 2) Make a filesystem on the new partition with mkreiserfs or whatever: # mkreiserfs /dev/hda6 3) Move the /usr data to the new partition: # mkdir /mnt/usr # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/usr # cp -a /usr /mnt/usr 4) Cleanup: # umount /mnt/usr # rmdir /mnt/usr 5) Modify /etc/fstab. Add a line like this: /dev/hda6 /usr reiserfs noatime 0 1 6) Reboot. 7) Verify that the new partition is actually being used: # mount | grep /usr should show something like: /dev/hda6 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,noatime) If "mount | grep /usr" doesn't show anything, don't continue to the next step! 8) Delete the data from the original /usr directory: # mount --bind / /mnt # cd /mnt # rm -rf * <-- careful with this! # cd / # umount /mnt From here, you can run "df -h" to show your filesystem usage. That's it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
