On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:02 am, Dennis &Sue wrote: > i have installed Mandrake 8.2 on a former Windows 20 gig harddrive. > I have 1 partition set as / ( 1.4 gigs ), another set as /home ( > 1.6 gigs ) I wouls like to make a couple more linux native > partitions for storage, etc. Going through Mandrake control center > I am able to do this, But here lies my question. > I believe I want to set them mount point as /usr, and I am told > this via a popup : > Directory /usr already contains some data ( share, bin, lib, > libexec, sbin...) My choices are as follows: > Move files to the new partition ? > Hide files ? > What option do I want to check so as not to hose my system, or have > to rebuild it again ?
Probably the easiest way is use the diskdrake to make a new partition and call it /other or whatever. It will write an entry to fstab for it and mount it. Then just copy your /usr directory to it (or dd would probaby be better). Then edit your fstab renaming /other to /usr and try to rename /usr to /usr.bak. Then reboot and if all is well, delete old /usr (/usr.bak). hth, -s
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