Hey Kapil, On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 11:18 am, Kapil D. Pendse wrote: > Hello PLUG! > > Currently, I don't have /usr on a separate partition. My / partition is 5GB > and almost full. I want to move /usr (which sums up to 3.6 GB of my / > partition) to a separate partition. It is safe? Of course it is safe. If you are just a bit careful that's all.
> Well, I know that playing > with partitions is never really safe, but are there issues with moving /usr > to a separate partition because of which it should be > avoided/NOT-DONE-AT-ALL? All I need is more space in order to install new > software. Is there any better way I can achieve this? Maybe moving /opt to > a different partition? This is such a common thing that there is a entry for this sort of thing the the Tips and Tricks HOWTO ...dunno if that document is actively maintained tho' ...google for it. The important thing while moving files from one partititon to another is: a) Take care not to screw up the permissions/ownership info b) Make sure that you have a valid entry in your fstab to point to the new location once the move is done. Here's how you might want to go about it: > Here's output of 'df': > > kapil:/home/TTux/downloads/bsnldataone/monitoring-software # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% > Mounted on > /dev/sda5 5124508 5041392 83116 99% / > tmpfs 249500 24 249476 1% > /dev/shm > /dev/sda6 22932052 20692264 2239788 91% > /data1 > /dev/sda7 22624584 13647516 8977068 61% > /data2 > /dev/sda8 4096408 1063144 3033264 26% > /home > /dev/sda1 4874192 4389580 484612 91% > /windows > /dev/sda4 12662896 11919416 743480 95% > /data3 > /dev/sda3 5194468 3345220 1585384 68% > /dis2 (boy are you out of space !! you ought to take backups/get a new disk) a) Assuming that you want to move your entire '/usr' directory to the partition that currently is mounted at /dis2, do the following (as root): $ (cd /usr && tar -cvf - . ) | (cd /dis2 && tar -xvf - ) This would move all the contents of /usr to /dis2 ...so for example: Before move: $ ls /dis2 bar foo ... After move: $ ls /dis2 bin bar foo ... ... sbin share ... b) Once you are sure that everything looks fine (eg: do a "find /dis2") you can do a $ rm [-rf] /usr/* Be VEEEEEERY CAREFUL ..be sure you have understood what you have just done. c) execute the commands: umount /dis2 mount /dev/sda3 /usr d) Then edit /etc/fstab and change the line: /dev/sda3 .... /dis2 0 0 to /dev/sda3 .... /usr 0 0 e) Run $ mount -a ...and you are all done !! HTH Regards Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
