partition question

[Wesley Simon <wsimon@primechoice.com>]

I have a linux partition that is running out of space.  I have another
partition on the drive that used to be NT, I toasted that partition and
created another linux partition.  I would like to put everthing under
/usr on the other partition.  I mounted it as /bkup.  I tried to go
under /usr and do a cp -rf * /bkup as root.  I was then going to change
the name of /usr to /usr.bak and change /bkup to /usr to test it.  I ran
into some errors.  One in particular mentioned a circular symbolic
link.  I stopped at this point, because I don't want to make a huge
mistake.


So, does anyone know the correct method for doing this?

Thanks,

Wes