To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P In your fstab you will see something like this (I use reiserfs everywhere):
#for your / /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 #hda1 is my root - see what's yours #for your /usr /dev/hdc1 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 So what you have to do is: 1. become root 2. go to single-user mode: # init 1 3. unmount /usr partition: # umount /usr and check if /usr directury is now empty # ls /usr 4. mount /dev/hdc1 to temporary location: # mkdir /mnt/usr # mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/usr 5. now your /usr directory points to / partition instead of /dev/hdc1 - so copy (recursively) all data from /mnt/tmp to /usr directory: # cp -R /mnt/usr / 6. now you have all /usr partition on your / partition - exactly what you needed. go to /mnt/usr and check if it is ok. now unmount /mnt/usr: # umount /mnt/usr 7. go to runlevel 3 and checkout if you have what you wanted # init 3 8. remove the line from fstab that mounts /dev/hdc1 to /usr - you don't need it anymore. That's all. Good luck! Artemio. Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > Hi all, > > Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet. On my firewall I have a > 3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and started to fill > up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I wanted to > move /usr to be one of the "normal" directories on the / partitions. > Unfortunatelly most howtos on the net refer to moving from a hdd to > another. I don't want to have a separate partition for /usr, but merely to > move it inside the partition where / is (so where it would have been if I > didn't have the wonderfull idea of putting it on a small separate > drive...). Any fast painless way to do it? I am pretty new to fstab and > mtab. I messed with them a couple of mdk versions ago, but was more like > "messed them up and had to reinstall". :) > > Best regards, > Adrian
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