Thanks guys. It worked like a charm. Used "cp -Ra" :) Best regards, Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Artemio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Moving a partition
> To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P > > In your fstab you will see something like this (I use reiserfs everywhere): > > #for your / > /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 #hda1 is my root - see what's yours > > #for your /usr > /dev/hdc1 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 > > So what you have to do is: > > 1. become root > > 2. go to single-user mode: > # init 1 > > 3. unmount /usr partition: > # umount /usr > and check if /usr directury is now empty > # ls /usr > > 4. mount /dev/hdc1 to temporary location: > # mkdir /mnt/usr > # mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/usr > > 5. now your /usr directory points to / partition instead of /dev/hdc1 - so > copy (recursively) all data from /mnt/tmp to /usr directory: > # cp -R /mnt/usr / > > 6. now you have all /usr partition on your / partition - exactly what you > needed. go to /mnt/usr and check if it is ok. now unmount /mnt/usr: > # umount /mnt/usr > > 7. go to runlevel 3 and checkout if you have what you wanted > # init 3 > > 8. remove the line from fstab that mounts /dev/hdc1 to /usr - you don't need > it anymore. > > > That's all. Good luck! > > > Artemio. > > > Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet. On my firewall I have a > > 3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and started to fill > > up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I wanted to > > move /usr to be one of the "normal" directories on the / partitions. > > Unfortunatelly most howtos on the net refer to moving from a hdd to > > another. I don't want to have a separate partition for /usr, but merely to > > move it inside the partition where / is (so where it would have been if I > > didn't have the wonderfull idea of putting it on a small separate > > drive...). Any fast painless way to do it? I am pretty new to fstab and > > mtab. I messed with them a couple of mdk versions ago, but was more like > > "messed them up and had to reinstall". :) > > > > Best regards, > > Adrian > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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