Right now I really don't care about elegance - I just need to get the stuff off that disk and replace it <G>. A symlink it is then.
Next problem is how to move the swap partition. I assume I can run without a swap for a period of time while I install a new disk and parition it. If so how do I disable it? Thanks. Net Llama! wrote: > Yea, you can't really mount /home within /usr, since it violates laws of > space & time. But you could always create a symlink: > /home -> /usr/home > > which would do what you want, somewhat unelegantly. > > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> I'm running Caldera 3.1 WS with three scsi drives. One drive (sdb) is >> going bad. I moved /var from /dev/sdb4 to /var on my root partition >> (/dev/sda1) and that worked - except cups doesn't print anymore but I'll >> fix that later. >> >> I have /home on /dev/sdb3 and need to move it somewhere else. It won't >> fit >> on any partition but /dev/sda2 which is currently mounted as /usr. I >> went to the SxS and the man pages. Is there anyway I can copy /home to >> say >> /usr/home and then mount it as /home? I tried various forms of mount and >> can't make it work. I don't have spare partitions on this system to use >> either. I just need to keep it running until I can get my RH 7.3 system >> delivered and installed. >> >> My swap partition is also on the bad drive but I don't have anywhere to >> move it. >> >> Thanks. >> > > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
