Many a howto have i read.
Here's the situation: My /usr partition has become
full. I would like to simply create a lager partition
and then copy over all the files from /usr and make
the necessary changes in fstab and remount.
I tried 'cp -a' and um...tarballing with permissions
etc, and ....i'm not sure if i tried anything else.
(Why? Because i had this problem a while ago and
finally i gave up and reinstalled with a larger
partition. This of course seems absurd but i was
pressed for time and couldn't get any help from my
local linux gurus)
I would be "successful" but when i would boot up and
log in, almost any program i ran from /usr would cause
a segmentation fault and result in a core dump. I
tried reinstalling the offending packages but that was
a very limited solution and didn't always work (that
gcc or make wouldn't work didn't make things any
easier). I looked through for any symbolic link
problems and i didn't have a lot (or any, that i can
remember) dead links. I'm wondering if there is
somewhere a reference to /dev/hdx (x=a1,b5,c, etc)
that also needs to be changed.
By the way, i also considered maintaining a /usr2
directory (like in, oh, say, Windows...) but one of my
local linux-gurus advised me that doing that would
result in an administrative nightmare.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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