On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:56 am, Bill Mullen wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates 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
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > looking at this more closely, what I would do is:
>
> This is /exactly/ how I'd do it as well. I'll just expand on a few
> details of Jack's excellent methodology, for clarity's sake.
>
> > > telinit 1
> > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/

I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding.  What can 
I do about this?

> > > umount /holding
> > > vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa.

I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a partition, 
but a directory.  Do I just mv /usr /holding?

Anne

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