Need to move parition

[Net Llama!]

Yea, you can't really mount /home within /usr, since it violates laws of 
space & time.  But you could always create a symlink:
/home -> /usr/home

which would do what you want, somewhat unelegantly.

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I'm running Caldera 3.1 WS with three scsi drives.  One drive (sdb) is 
> going bad.  I moved /var from /dev/sdb4 to /var on my root partition 
> (/dev/sda1) and that worked - except cups doesn't print anymore but I'll 
> fix that later.
> 
> I have /home on /dev/sdb3 and need to move it somewhere else.  It won't fit 
> on any partition but /dev/sda2 which is currently mounted as /usr.    I 
> went to the SxS and the man pages.  Is there anyway I can copy /home to say 
> /usr/home and then mount it as /home?  I tried various forms of mount and 
> can't make it work.  I don't have spare partitions on this system to use 
> either.  I just need to keep it running until I can get my RH 7.3 system 
> delivered and installed.
> 
> My swap partition is also on the bad drive but I don't have anywhere to 
> move it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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