From: Colin Whittaker (grimnar at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Sat 29 Jan 2000 - 15:38:49 GMT
Dermot Gorman stated the following on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:30:37PM +0000 :
> What are my options when my /usr partition of ~800MB becomes full and i
> want increase the space by adding a new drive or partition, do i:
>
> a) backup entire /usr partition to a free drive/CD-R and add a new
> drive partition or
> b) Wipe everything and reinstall entire system with larger partitions??
>
> or is there another simpler method?
Install the new disk and make say a new larger partition for
/usr.
make the filesystem on it
from single user mode do the following (or somehting similar)
mkdir /a
mount /dev/{newusr} /a
( cd /usr && tar -cf - .) | (cd /a && tar -xf - )
then change the mount point for /usr in /etc/fstab to the new filesystem
you can then reboot or go to multiuser mode.
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