On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:21:25PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: [...] > I think I used cp -a, I used midnight commander, and it usually seems to do > OK, but next time I will use command line to be sure. I could have done > something else, like got a circular link or something that messed it up. > Just wanted to know it the basic idea was correct.
The basic idea is correct, but the details can bring the operation to a
grinding halt ;-).
> > Why did you not mount /dev/hdc1 under /usr to avoid one of the symlinks?
> > That's the way I would do it. It ought to work either way though.
>
> That's what I wanted to do, but wasn't sure how. How do you do that?
Move your old /usr out of the way and make a new empty /usr. Edit /etc/fstab
to add an entry thus:
/dev/hdc1 /usr ext2 defaults 0 0
Then run 'mount -a' (which mounts the filesystems listed in /etc/fstab).
Move /home into /usr and make a symlink from /usr/home to /home.
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