* Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030730 14:53]: > > > > telinit 1 > > > > cp -a /usr/* /holding/ > > I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can > I do about this?
That SHOULD have put everything under /usr into /holding ... but if you see /holding/usr/<lots of stuff> you can do: mv /holding/usr/* /holding/ Then you should be able to remove /holding/usr because it should be empty: rmdir /holding/usr > > > > 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? If at this point, you have identical directories/files under /usr and under /holding, and /holding is a partition, then you won't need to use mv to change /holding to /usr ... you'll do that by changing the mount points in /etc/fstab. What makes this a little tricky is that when you reboot, you'll have the same stuff in the new /usr as in what will be a kind of phantom /usr that was mounted under / ... it's like what happens if you copy something into /mnt/floppy while there is no floppy disk mounted. When you mount the floppy, the stuff that was there will appear to be gone, replaced by whatever is on the floppy. Then when you unmount the floppy, the stuff that was there before you mounted the floppy will appear. I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it takes precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr works, you'll have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, delete what is in the /usr partition under / (and probably that /usr directory also) and then remount your partition that holds the stuff from /usr. This is why I like using Knoppix ... it's easier for me to understand and be sure of what is going on with the partitions when they're all mounted as /mnt/hda5, /mnt/hda6, etc. Hope this made it clearer rather than murkier ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML
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