<quote who="Christopher Booth">

> I have a 10 gig Mandrake partition, used perhaps 4 gig of it.  I wanted to
> create a directory on it and call it say "mepis-usr" then make it the /usr
> directory, or make a subdirectory call "usr" to be /usr when I boot up
> Mepis.  Mandrake won't bother with it.
> 
> I don't want to create another partition really, or is this the only way
> to do it ?

1. Start in single user mode
2. Make sure the Mandrake partition is mounted, say, at /mnt
3. cp -a /usr /mnt/mepis-usr
4. rm -rf /usr
5. ln -s /mnt/mepis-usr /usr
6. Ensure that the Mandrake partition is automatically mounted (/etc/fstab)

- Jeff

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