Thanks. I'm trying to find a partition with enough space now. Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> You can do anything you want. Your best bet would be to move (copy if you > like backup) the contents of /home to /usr/home (which will be a directory > /home on sda2). Then, umount /home and delete the /home directory from > the root partition. The final part is to create a softlink to make it > LOOK like /home sits at /home. type the following command at this point: > ln -s /usr/home /home > > That will create the link and /home will be available as long as /usr is > mounted. > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:16:07 -0500 > "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- 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.
