+++ Stuart Jansen [26/04/07 10:12 -0600]: > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:05 -0600, Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > > I need advice on moving a directory, /usr, which now occupies its own > > partition, but which I'd like to have on a bigger partition. > > The safest way to make this change is to boot from a rescue CD and move > the data manually. You should also be able to do it from runlevel 1 > without too much increased danger. You don't want to make this change on > a live system. > > This sort of problem should be a thing of the past. You should have used > LVM. With LVM, you would have been able to escape the limitations of > partitions and even reconfigure the system live. Since you're going to > have to shut the machine down anyway, maybe you should just backup all > your data, reformat using LVM, restore the data and bring the system > back up.
Since I want to do the best thing here, I have poked around and find that lvm2 is installed, but not yet setup on my system. Can I set up lvm2 now, with my system in place as is, and then use it to rearrange things? I am reading the documentation and howto, but it's still a bit fuzzy... /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
