On 0, Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote: [snip] > > could I move the /usr/local to /usr -- mv /usr/local /usr/ > > and as for var, can I do the same thing. > > Yup. I dunno, something there just doesn't smell quite right. I'd do something like this: $ umount /usr/local $ mkdir /mnt/temp $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hda? /mnt/temp # /dev/hda? is whatever partition /usr/local is on $ cp -rp /mnt/temp/* /usr/local $ umount /mnt/temp $ rmdir /mnt/temp Trying to copy the contents of a partition to mount point of that partition seems fraught with possibilities for disaster, to me. Do something similar for /var, then you can delete those partitions and restructure them as you wish. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones." - Mike Barfield Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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