Heath Doane wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
>         I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving
> my /usr to a new drive.  What I had in mind was mounting the new drive
> as a temp. directory on the root, copying the /usr structure over to the
> new drive, renaming the /usr to something (like /usr-old) just as a CYA
> thing.. then mounting the new drive as /usr.  Seems straightfoward
> enough, but this is a production system, so I want to make sure that
> there's no hidden traps.  So, are there any hidden traps? :)
>
>         Thanks
>
>         Heath Doane

Heath,    I did the same thing (same steps and all). Make sure to use the -p
flag with cp so all your permisions aren't lost in the copy. That was my blunder
and I spent a day or so figuring out what I messed up.


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