Re: partition question
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 11:21:11PM -0600, Wesley Simon wrote:
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> 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.
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> So, does anyone know the correct method for doing this?
try :
cd /usr
cp -aR * /bkup that will give a /bkup that holds the links also,
but before finally delete the "old" user and rename /bkup try it out
cYa
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Peter
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