Re: Maximal Mount Count
What is the command that I use to mv /usr to /dev/hda2?
I tried 'mv /usr /hda2/usr', but that gave me the error, 'mv: cannot
move '/usr' across filesystems: Not a regular file.
Thank you...
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On 3/9/99, 5:52:08 PM, Andrei Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu> wrote
regarding Re: Maximal Mount Count:
> > It is a 1gig partition. I have two others on this same machine.
> Ok, make your partitions ready for linux (ext2 fs, etc).
> >
> > What can I do to move stuff to these other partitions so that my 1st
> > partition will not be so loaded down. I would like to install more
> > software there?
> Then what you can do is split your major directories into separate
> partitions. Like, /usr can have it's own partition,
> /home can have it's own partition. All you do for it is copy the files
> over to those new partitions from old directories, and then edit
> /etc/fstab to indicate where to mount those partitions to.
> For example, if you are creating a new partition /dev/hda2
> and you want to put /usr on it, you copy the files from your old /usr
onto
> the /dev/hda2, and add a line to /etc/fstab to tell that /usr is to
> mounted to /dev/hda2
> > What directory trees can safely be moved to another partition?
> /usr
> /home
> /var
> Andrew
>
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