partition question

R Kimber richardkimber at btinternet.com
Fri Sep 16 22:42:54 UTC 2011


On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:55:25 +0100
R Kimber wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:31:29 +0100
> Avi Greenbury wrote:
> 
> > In short, pick a big directory, move it to another partition and
> > symlink to it is generally the most pain-free way to do it, but is
> > probably not the ideologically purest way of doing it :)
> > 
> > It's safest to boot into single-user when you do it, though, to make
> > sure you'll not be annoying anything by pulling /usr out from
> > underneath it.
> 
> GivEn my kEyboard problEm, rEportEd in othEr thrEad, I wish I'd donE it
> this way now!

Actually, the two problems were unrelated - they just coincided.

- Richard.
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