On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:15:36 +0100 "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want more space under /, so I tried to move /usr to a different > partition - and (IIRC) had a 'failure to unmount the initrd' on boot... > and no boot. > > So, is there a safe way to do this?
> /usr is a little tricky because it will usually have open processes on it. > You can move /usr to a new partition as you have done with /opt, but you'll > need to do it from the live cd. That's going to be the only way you can > delete the old /usr folder structure. Well, I went to runlevel 1 and copied everything to my new partition, then renamed /usr to /usr_old and made my fstab changes. When I rebooted, there were problems with booting. I wanted to figure that out. I have a notion that some part of the boot process needs something under /usr, but I don't know what or how to find out. [snip] > As to whether to move all of /usr or just parts of /usr, I have separate > partitions for /usr/local and /usr/portage but leave /usr on the root > partition. Okay. I can live with that, if I know it's possible. I just need a little extra space, as the disk use approaches 90%. Moving /usr/local should be fine then. I've already moved /usr/portage with flags in make.conf. [8<] Thanks for your reply, -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael[dot]higgins[at]snet[dot]net -- [email protected] mailing list
