[ILUG] Re: /usr partition full??

ray at phbrink.ie ray at phbrink.ie
Sat Jan 29 17:06:28 GMT 2000


On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Colin Whittaker wrote:
|
|mkdir /a
|mount /dev/{newusr} /a
|( cd /usr && tar -cf - .) | (cd /a && tar -xf - )

just be careful that you've a "correct" umask set or put a preserve
permissions flag onto tar so that things will still work when you go back
to multi-user mode.

as always test it first to make sure that it works before committing your
self Instead of having having to learn the hard way. 

regards
	Ray ...


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