Re: Adding more disk-space

[Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se>]

Viggo <viggovap@mail.worldonline.dk> writes:

[...]
> Why does Linux only report 515 Mb, when the drive is supposedly 540 Mb?
> (linux using 524/32/63, drive physically 1048/16/63)

I don't know.

> Wanting to move  /usr to the new hd, how would I go about it?
> I suppose I have to format(initialize?) and mount the drive, and then
> copy /usr with everything "beneath" it to the new hd? (Which is
> basically what I would have done back in the DOS-days...)

% mkdir /usr-new
% mount /usr-new   {read the man-page}
% cp --archive /usr /usr-new
% mv /usr /usr-old
% mkdir /usr
% umount /usr-new
% mount /usr
% emacs /etc/fstab

> Thanks for your patience with a *nix-newbie. I'm trying to learn,
> and I'll happily read any FM.

man mount
man fstab

HTH - ask if not.

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