[gentoo-user] moving /usr

[gentoo-user] moving /usr

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving
/usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do
this safely?

Thanks,
Mark

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[gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

[Mark Knecht]

On 3/10/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving
> /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do
> this safely?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164

I'll  proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some
problem with doing it this way.

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

[Ralph Slooten]

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Mark Knecht wrote:
> Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums:

Funny enough, you asked almost the exact same question on 04 June 2004!
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/83253
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

[Mark Knecht]

On 3/10/06, Ralph Slooten <axllent@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums:
>
> Funny enough, you asked almost the exact same question on 04 June 2004!
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/83253

That's hilarious! Actually, this is the same machine I was speakign
about then. However at that time I actually ended up just moving
/usr/portage and never had to follow through on that thread.

Very funny! Thanks for finding it!

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

[Ralph Slooten]

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Mark Knecht wrote:
> Very funny! Thanks for finding it!

LOL, well it's not really like I was trying to find it. Truth be told it
was my software that found it. I wrote a few scripts to archive all my
gentoo-user mailing to a MySQL database (88,132 emails and counting).

It got "stuck" on the reply from Sergio Polini, whose email doesn't
comply with the standards (doesn't contain a In-Reply-To header).

The software then checks the database for message-subjects matching the
email's, in this case finding 2 (your old one and this one), and didn't
know which to add it to, skipping it ~ that's how I spotted it ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

[Ghaith Hachem]

i think this should be easy,
make the new partition copy the contenet of /usr to it
change your fstab to include the new modifications
i'm not sure how to delete the old one after it's mounted maybe mount
-o bind? or just boot a live cd and delete the content of your old
/usr from there when you restart it shoudl be working fine

On 3/10/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving
> /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do
> this safely?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Friday 10 March 2006 15:53, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving
> /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do
> this safely?

go to the suse support database.

Look up your question.

They recommend tar (I did it once with their instructions and it worked 
perfectly).
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