jakommo writes: > On 11/16/06, geistteufel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you have opt in your / I suggest to move it and doing a symlink > > > > like cd /; mv opt usr; ln -s usr/opt . > For now I think maybe its better to make some new partitions and copy the > stuff to them by using a live cd and then adjust fstab and/or make > symlinks. the problem is the maschine is a server and I dont want it to > be down for a long time, its only used for cups at the moment, but I > think its more secure to quit the idea of resizing and do it the mount > and symlink way. another benefit of this way is I can prepare everything > so I only need to reboot with a live cd to copy the files and thats it. I don't think there is a neeed to boot from CD for that. Just copy /usr (or whatever directory you like) to its new destination, rename /usr and create the symlink instantly after that: cp -pr /usr /newdrive/ mv /usr /usr.old && /usr.old/bin/ln -s /newdrive/usr / This makes /usr unavailable for a fraction of seconds only. Programs currently using files in /usr should not be affected, when the files are still open it should not matter if they are renamed as long as they stay on the same partition. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list