* Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030729 15:58]:
> On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:50 pm, Jan Wilson wrote:
> > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030729 09:20]:
> > > I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space.  My
> > > current situation is
> > >
> > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hde7             5.9G  5.3G  288M  95% /
> > > /dev/hde5             5.9G  2.7G  3.3G  46% /Data
> > > /dev/hde6             5.7G  452M  5.3G   8% /Graphics
> > > /dev/hde8            1012M  7.7M  953M   1% /boot
> > > /dev/hde10            5.8G   33M  5.5G   1% /holding
> > > /dev/hde9             9.7G  4.5G  5.3G  47% /home
> > > /dev/hdf1             5.3G  3.3G  1.8G  65% /mnt/Mdk9_0
> > > /dev/hdf6             3.9G  2.2G  1.7G  57% /mnt/OldData
> > > /dev/hdf7             6.7G  5.0G  1.7G  75% /mnt/OldHome
> > > /dev/hde1             3.9G  1.8G  2.2G  46% /mnt/windows
> > >
> > > hdf is the old drive, and to be ignored.  Only half of hde is
> > > partitioned and used at present.
> > >
> > > /holding is an ext3 partition, empty.
> > > /Data & /Graphics are vfat, and could easily be combined under
> > > /Data

Ooops, and you did say it there plain and simple.  OK ... how about
copying everything (as root) from /usr into /holding:

cp -av /usr/* /holding/

Make sure it looks like everything copied OK.  Then you should be able
to boot into console mode as root, rename /usr to something else, and
mount /dev/hde10 as /usr.

Then try to run something that is in /usr and if OK, change /etc/fstab
to mount /dev/hde10 as /usr, and you can delete everything in the
directory that WAS /usr in hde7.

I would do this instead by booting into Knoppix ... I find more and
more uses for it every day.  From Knoppix it would be less tricky
because you would not be running the risk of using something in /usr,
but the former method SHOULD work because /usr is supposed to be
mountable read only anyway.  Almost.

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