Mark Knecht: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164 > > I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some > problem with doing it this way.
There are several hints in that topic. I did move my /usr to a new partition, so I'ld say: 1. create and format your new partition; 2. mount your new partition in /mnt/whatever; 3. copy the content of your /usr into this partition by: cp -a /usr/* /mnt/whatever (the "-a" option is important; look at man cp); 4. reboot frome a livecd; 5. mount your root filesystem and edit /etc/fstab: /dev/hdXY /usr etc. 6. reboot from the hard disk to be sure that your new partition is well mounted and works; run "mount" to check that /usr is on your new partition; test this in other ways to be really sure ;-) 7. reboot again from a live cd; 8. mount your root filesystem in /mnt/something; 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: cd /mnt/something/usr rm -rf * NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the mount point for the new partition; 10. cross your fingers and reboot from the hard disk ;-) HTH Sergio ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list