On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 11:21:11PM -0600, Wesley Simon wrote: > > > I have a linux partition that is running out of space. I have another > partition on the drive that used to be NT, I toasted that partition and > created another linux partition. I would like to put everthing under > /usr on the other partition. I mounted it as /bkup. I tried to go > under /usr and do a cp -rf * /bkup as root. I was then going to change > the name of /usr to /usr.bak and change /bkup to /usr to test it. I ran > into some errors. One in particular mentioned a circular symbolic > link. I stopped at this point, because I don't want to make a huge > mistake. > > > So, does anyone know the correct method for doing this? try : cd /usr cp -aR * /bkup that will give a /bkup that holds the links also, but before finally delete the "old" user and rename /bkup try it out cYa -- Peter