On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > could I move the /usr/local to /usr -- mv /usr/local /usr/ > > and as for var, can I do the same thing. > > Yup.
I dunno, something there just doesn't smell quite right. I'd do
something like this:
$ umount /usr/local
$ mkdir /mnt/temp
$ mount -t ext2 /dev/hda? /mnt/temp # /dev/hda? is whatever partition /usr/local is on
$ cp -rp /mnt/temp/* /usr/local
$ umount /mnt/temp
$ rmdir /mnt/temp
Trying to copy the contents of a partition to mount point of that
partition seems fraught with possibilities for disaster, to me. Do
something similar for /var, then you can delete those partitions and
restructure them as you wish.
Tom
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