On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Pork E. Pigg wrote:
> Heath Doane wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving
> > my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the new drive
> > as a temp. directory on the root, copying the /usr structure over to the
> > new drive, renaming the /usr to something (like /usr-old) just as a CYA
> > thing.. then mounting the new drive as /usr. Seems straightfoward
> > enough, but this is a production system, so I want to make sure that
> > there's no hidden traps. So, are there any hidden traps? :)
>
> I did just that (almost) moving /home. I simply copied everything to the
> new drive, renamed /home to /home2 and named the new one /home. My
> method required a reboot and a mount of the new drive. There may be a
> better way but, this one worked great.
>
Don't forget to edit /etc/fstab or use fstool and change the device for
the /usr (or which ever drive your changing) entry.
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