Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home

2000-04-25 Thread flupke
Paul wrote: > > Hi all, > > Now I am in need of an answer. > I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is > a 1.6 Gb partition. > Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move > /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. > These ex

Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home

2000-04-25 Thread Del Kennedy
Do a copy (cp) not a move (mv) ! It's a whole lot safer. Then you can delete the old directories when you're *sure* you're system's *not* messed up. cp -R /home /mnt/b1/ I'm guessing you've already edited fstab in your /etc partition to automount the new partitions under ./mnt/. Otherwise, try

[newbie] Moving usr and home

2000-04-25 Thread Paul
Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /