Re: Moving Directories

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:49:36AM +1000, Steven Farrier wrote:
| I have the / directory stored in /dev/hda2 and the /usr directory
| stored in /dev/hda3. My question, how would I move /usr to /dev/hda2
| and vice-versa?

Boot without mounting /usr.  Mount /usr somewhere else and 'mkdir
/usr'.  Then 'mv /other_mount/* /usr'.

This works in general to move data from one partition to another, but
the obvious glitch is if you need data/apps from the partition being
moved during the move.

HTH,
-D