Syed Huq wrote:
It's easiest if you have a third partition large enough to hold the smaller of your two /usr and /home partitions, although you can do it if you have enough free space for one of your partitions on the other, but it's messy.Hi, If I want to swap the mount point and all it's content between /usr and /home. What should I do ? I realized that I made a mistake in the partition size between the two and I would like to "swap"them. The disk space I originally intended for /usr and /home needs to be swapped. Thanks, Rathon --
It's very easy to mess up no matter how you do it. You'll want to boot into single-user mode (or better, boot off a LiveCD, such as Knoppix), copy/move the data, preserving permissions, unmount and remount with the new mount points, and edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new mount points.
I would boot off Knoppix, mount the /usr and /home partitions, along with a third empty partition, say "/spare"; then "cp -a /home /spare", double-check that did what I wanted, then "rm -rf /home"; "cp -a /usr /home", again double-checking that it did what I wanted (you don't want "/home/usr"; you want "/home[the files/dirs in /usr]"); then "rm -rf /usr"; and finally "cp -a /spare /usr" and "rm -r /spare". Then fix the mount point settings in /etc/fstab, and reboot.
-- Kent