Chang babbled on about:
> in a typical init, are /usr and /opt needed?

/usr is almost always needed. /opt is.. well, 'opt'ional..

>
> that's what I tbought. hmm..
> must I reformat the partition after resizing it?
> Could I just get away with a simple e2fsck on a resized partition?

if you follow my directions, no reformat, no resize, no fsck is needed.

>
> > umount /opt
> > mount /dev/hda8 /mnt
> > cd /mnt
> > mv * /opt
> > cd /usr/local
> > mv * /mnt
> > cd /
> > umount /dev/hda8
> > mount /dev/hda8 /usr/local
> > telinit 3
> > (wait, wait)
> > (verify things are ok)
> >
> > edit /etc/fstab
> > change:
> > /dev/hda8 <blah> /opt
> > to:
> > dev/hda8 <blah> /usr/local
>
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