On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote:
...
> >
> > > > telinit 1
> > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/
> 
> I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding.  What can 
> I do about this?

Check /root/.bash_history -- did you miss the slash between usr and *?

> 
> > > > 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
> 

risky to do a mv instead of cp. Also, when you finished mounting
/dev/hde10 you'd end up with /usr/usr, which won't work.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
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